2/20  What a day. G and I walked to the bus station after breakfast (included, but only sweetcakes, coffee or tea. We were spoiled in Iguazu with juice, eggs, fresh rolls) to buy our cama bus tickets, which means the sleeper bus. We splurged and got the ones that recline all the way. It includes 2 meals and movies. We leave at 21:30 and arrive in El Bolson at 11 am the next day.  Another new adventure. We bought our tickets only speaking spanish. We are really hetting good at this. So glad I took the class before we left. I know the grammar is horrible, but it is working. Days of the week, numbers and question words, foods, direction words and greetings are really important.
Surprise, surprise...the car rental guy was late dropping off the car by
1 1/2 hours. Guess we were on island time.  Oh well, when in Argentina...
The trip to the penguins was interesting for the first 10km. After that there was nothing to see for miles in either direction. The land was very deserty looking with nothing but scrub brush. We did see an ostrich looking bird and some guanancos (looks like a llama). The highwat has 3 different speed limits depending on what kind of vehicle you are driving. The last 20 km were on a gravel road. Interesting.
The park was done really nice by keeping it super natural. The only rule... DON'T TOUCH THE PENGUINS or DON'T STEP OUTSIDE THE WALK AREA.  I am happy to report I was a good girl, even though it was tempting. They were so cute. No repeat of Costa Rica and the turtles.  Some other guy got yelled at for disturbing the penguins.
Other than 3 little wooden bridges over the most common crossing areas, all they did was outline a stone walking area with larger stones.  EVERYWHERE you looked there were penguins. We were all surpriaed that they build nests as far as 1 km from the beach. That is pretty far for a penguin to waddle. We could watch them swim in the ocean and how cool it was to watch them body surf onto the beach and pop up at the last minute. This reminds me of watching the salmon swim upstream in alaska... we could have stood there all day watching.
Not only did I take tons of pictures, but some little video clips too. They were just soooooo cute.
Dinner tonight will be pre cooked something from the market with some kind of salad because we won't get back til late. Bob and Terry are going shopping. Who knows what we will end up with.
Tomorrow is an early start. Breakfast at 7, leave by 8 to Penninsula Valdes. More wildlife!