We recently posted one our "Penguin Happy Dance" video on YouTube so we could include it in this blog. Apparently, this coincided with some sort of Penguin Appreciation Day (no kidding).
A few other blogs have since helped celebrate this "special day" by embedding our little video which is actually pretty cool.
January 25, 2008
January 10, 2008
January 7, 2008
January 5, 2008
Not Us
Apparently a Norwegian cruise ship hit a glacier in the Antarctic. This was a small ship & was not the NCL ship we are on.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22429821/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22429821/
Montevideo, Uruguay
We're here. The weather is fantastic. The network connection is icky. More to come sometime soon.
Quote of the Day: "Football is sort of popular here. If you drop a ball in the street people will gather around."
Quote of the Day: "Football is sort of popular here. If you drop a ball in the street people will gather around."
January 3, 2008
Puerto Madryn: Land of Free-Range Penguins
Today the ship visited Puerto Madryn, Argentina.
We headed north up to Punta Norte (north of Puerto Madryn) to the San Lorenzo Estancia to visit a colony of Magellanic Penguins. Of course, the only way to get there was by spending 90-minutes or so riding in a shock absorber-free bus on an unpaved, bumpy road (sponsored by the makers of Tylenol, we’re guessing). There’s nothing like “off-roading” in a bus in far-away lands.
Once we arrived at the estancia we moved into smaller, shock absorber-free trucks & headed out towards the penguin colony.
These penguins were much different than the ones we saw in the Falkland Islands. They live in burrows instead of nests and return to the same burrow each year. As we walked around the colony we had to be careful as to not step on either any burrows or penguins. Chicks were everywhere!
Afterwards we headed back to the estancia for an “authentic” Argentinean lunch. This meant lamb, lamb and then more lamb (hunted down by the penguins earlier, of course) and lots of other Argentinean protein (dust).
We then all excitedly reboarded the bus to spend more time on the unpaved Tylenol Highway & head towards the Atlantic Ocean to see a ton of sea lions & sea elephants.
On the way back to the ship we saw all sorts of creatures roaming free from the South American “ostrich,” wild llamas, burrowing owls to the largest rat/bunny ever seen.
We headed north up to Punta Norte (north of Puerto Madryn) to the San Lorenzo Estancia to visit a colony of Magellanic Penguins. Of course, the only way to get there was by spending 90-minutes or so riding in a shock absorber-free bus on an unpaved, bumpy road (sponsored by the makers of Tylenol, we’re guessing). There’s nothing like “off-roading” in a bus in far-away lands.
Once we arrived at the estancia we moved into smaller, shock absorber-free trucks & headed out towards the penguin colony.
These penguins were much different than the ones we saw in the Falkland Islands. They live in burrows instead of nests and return to the same burrow each year. As we walked around the colony we had to be careful as to not step on either any burrows or penguins. Chicks were everywhere!
Afterwards we headed back to the estancia for an “authentic” Argentinean lunch. This meant lamb, lamb and then more lamb (hunted down by the penguins earlier, of course) and lots of other Argentinean protein (dust).
We then all excitedly reboarded the bus to spend more time on the unpaved Tylenol Highway & head towards the Atlantic Ocean to see a ton of sea lions & sea elephants.
On the way back to the ship we saw all sorts of creatures roaming free from the South American “ostrich,” wild llamas, burrowing owls to the largest rat/bunny ever seen.
January 2, 2008
Villagers Flee Volcano Eruption in Chile
So, we may have mentioned earlier that it isn't a vacation for us without a natural disaster happening, right? Well, a day or so after we left this part of Chile, the Llaima Volcano erupted.
Details:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/02/naturaldisasters.chile
Once the locals kept trying to explain to "us Americans" that this was just like the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980. Once we mentioned that we had actually experienced that one we were treated like celebs.
Fortunately, we were far enough away from the Chilean volcano's eruption so that it did not interrupt our trip.
Details:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/02/naturaldisasters.chile
Once the locals kept trying to explain to "us Americans" that this was just like the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980. Once we mentioned that we had actually experienced that one we were treated like celebs.
Fortunately, we were far enough away from the Chilean volcano's eruption so that it did not interrupt our trip.
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