Thursday 16 December 2010

15th December 2010 Puerto Madryn – Puerto Piramades 63 miles

We spend the morning updating the blog and eventually leave for Puerto P:iramades. This is on the Peninsular Valdes and we once again travel with very strong side winds. Interesting ly we arrive at a toll style gate and have to pay to enter the peninsular, after about 25k we arrive at the visitor centre which has info about the history of the area, the English translation, unlike many other establishments, is outstanding. Ther is an elevated viewing area which essentially gives a better view of what wasn’t available on the ground, noe a great deal.
We then travel on to Puerto Pilamades the main, strike that, the only town on the Peninsular. The journey is flat to the end and then we decend into the town, 2 very interesting things happened here, firstly a cyclist was heading out of the town and it is a long and lonly road to wherever he is going but the second issue was that a lady was walking up the hill and we know there is nothing for 30 plus kilometres. There is a campsite which seems to have a preservation order on old caravans, but we do find a few tents and finally make camp.
Ther is a marina, may be stretching it but something close and a fantastic beach. We have a glance through the town and settle on a restaurant, guess what we have steak.

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