Rio Negro

Last time, we left you at Carmen de Patagones, old village borded by the Rio Negro. We hardly found the mudy municipal camping in Viedma but the family really nice gave us a nice place for our Corsa. We had a chance for a shower in the only one not devastated by rocks and mud and even had hot soup in front of a show of « on-fire bollas » ! Another storm came during the night and the corsa was flotting almost like a boat on the morning (no idea about how other people in tents manage the night !)

We had a sunny breakfast in Viedma before taking the road to El Condor, small village on the coast where you can usually find the most important colony parrot of the world : 35 000 couples !
Well, it wasn‘t the reproduction period, so we only saw thousands of their nests dug in the rock. We heard some of them perched on electrics lines but too fare away to see their colour !

We had more chance later when we arrived at « La Loberia » with a beautiful group of pink flamingos flying on the sea ! We enjoyed the water of atlantic ocean for the first time on Argentian coast ! Cold for me but « as good as britain’s » for Baptiste ! Anyway the landscape was really great !

We kept on going along the coast until the beach where a Sea’s Lion family was enjoying the sun. These big and fat animals spend most of their time lying on sunny beaches. The male hardly try to stay up, roaring with his « great » mane. Babys lions were about 2 months old and already « running » on the beach. Taking the car to go back to Viedma we enjoyed firsts movements of clouds before a really big storm. It was fantastic ! We even had a rainbow with the last sunbeams…

The storm that came then was incredible too, I don’t really know how the corsa survived it but wipers gave their best ! After 2 hours driving with the storm, the sun came back only to gave us a wonderful sunset on the wet, straight and empty road, special moment !
We finally arrived at « Las Grutas » at night and enjoyed the city on the next morning, walking on the beach to see these natural caves dug by the ocean.