Day: October 30, 2025

Puerto Madryn – Day 2

Today we drove out to Valdes Peninsula. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site and Argentine nature reserve. We saw so much wildlife.

Lots and lots of Guanacos
Sea lions at Punta Piramides
Elephant seals at Punta Delgada
Elephant seals at Punta Cantor. Elephant seals can be over 16 feet long and weigh more than 8,000 ponds
Today was another very windy day but the temperature was pleasant
We had coffee before going on to our next stop.
Just a bit farther up the road we saw lots of penguins in a penguin colony

After waiting to see a Rhea for more than a month today we saw several

A pair of rheas crossing the road.
We saw several of this cool bird. A Elegant Crested Tinamou. I love using Merlin to identify birds.

The restaurant we had planned to go to for dinner didn’t have any tables available, so we went to a nearby bar and had pizza.

Dinner

Gaiman to Puerto Madryn

Today was a wildlife day. We drove south to Punta Tombo to see the Penguin Colony. On the way we saw a Rhea. I’ve really been wanting to see one and finally we did.

I didn’t get a very good picture of him. You can see how well camouflaged he is.

At Punta Tombo we saw hundreds of penguins, several guanaco, and lots of seals. The seals were all in the water so I didn’t get any good pictures of them.

One of the many penguins we saw.
Penguins at the waters edge
Some of the guanacos
The view from Punta Tombo

From Punta Tombo we drove back north to Puerto Madryn on the coast north and a bit east of Gaiman.

Today was a very windy day. The sand was blowing over the road as we pulled into our hotel in Puerto Madryn .

The view from our room at the Rayentray Grand Hotel