We are staying in a big new hotel overlooking the Golfo Nuevo, a huge bay about 60 kms diameter which is a nature reserve and home to all sorts of wildlife including whales, dolphins, seals and penguins. Puerto Madryn itself was founded by Welsh settlers in the late 1800's, many of the street names and places around have welsh names which is bait weird.. It is now a beach resort and popular for watersports, especially diving.
This morning was a beautiful sunny spring morning with almost no wind and we went on a whale watching tour which was quite interesting. We went out in a large RIB and soon found ourselves alongside a Right Whale, about 16 metres long and weighing in at around 40 tons. That's about the size of a large bus, it's calf was alongside and was about the size of a long wheelbase Sprinter van. It isn't possible to imagine the scale of these mammals unless you get close up but these things, I promise you, are huge. Later, another whale which was white came over to check us out, almost close enough to touch.
We had also planned to see some penguins but the trip was too long, a shame as my daughter Charlotte fancied one as a pet for home.
This afternoon we serviced the car, nothing much to do thank goodness, all seems well in that department. Out to a fish restaurant tonight, penguin and chips maybe?
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