Today was a great learning curve for both of us, the whole of this peninsular is connected with roads termed as ripio, these are roads of predominately gravel of various thickness interspaced with SAND, OMG.
We start out and a couple of wobbles but as the journey progresses we gain confidence and we hope skill. Having started at the speed limit of 60k we get overtaken by a minibus doing a tour and breath his dust for the next 5 minutes. Eventually we are able to mave at 50 – 60 mph and relax into the terrain and every now and again some really deep gravel, or worse SAND and a real tank slapper saps all of you new found confidence.
We manage to get to Pointa Norte the most northern part of the Peninsular and see Sea Lions and had we been a month earlier Orcas would also have been here but they have all headed South. Moving on we travel down the East coast and stop to see some Penguins, now martin and I both thought we would be looking through long lenses to see some penguins on the horizon, oh no, there they are a couple of feet away, fantastic. We will post some pics of this.
Heading on South we use our new found skills and then come to deep sand and all the confidence we have gained disappears in a second, hey ho.
We arrive back at the campsite 140 miles later and 137 of those was off road, not bad. Just in time to have a shower and then update the blog and dinner.
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So graphic are your blogs I'm almost there with you!!
ReplyDeleteGlad it's all going so well and your off road skills are clearly coming on in leaps and bounds.
Have to ask - are there any vegetarians in SA???
I suspect they'd starve to death if there were!!
Looking forward to the pix of the penguins.
;o)) Christopher
Extraordianary using 'Spot' to track where you are.
ReplyDeleteZooming in and can actually see the campsite you are in - give us a wave!!
;o)) Christopher