Today we are going to stay another night at El Condor. We have a lazy start to the day and get some new maps for our GPS from Frank, a German guy we have met and has travelled extensively around the world both backpacking and motorcycling.
There is a colony of sea lions 33k along the coast, college 2 look this up on the internet (El Condor sea lions), so we head off along the cliffs with Frank who shows us a couple of cuttings that have been made down to the sea. These are very steep and gnarly and are covered in gravel, it’s all experience. Frank then leaves us to it as he only has 100k of gas left and we go on to the colony alone.
Once there we meet 3 Swiss guys on KTM bikes who are keen to get off road. We all go into the colony and check out pictures and info in the building before venturing outside along purpose built walkways. We are given binoculars to view the sea lions and elephant seals and there are lots basking in the sun and also swimming around. We are then led in the opposite direction again on walkways and suddenly we see thousands of sea lions on the beach and in the sea, we are told there are about 9000 here. Also there are many parrots living in the cliffs and they are bussing all around, there are said to be about 30000 nests with 2 birds in each, you can imagine what that sounded like. Ther are many other species of birds here and a month earlier there were Orca Whales here, but they have all gone South now. When we leave the Swiss guys are considering doing 160k along the coast on gravel, bear in mind that it is now about 4.30pm, probably not a good idea so they decide to go by road instead.
Back at the campsite Philip, the Austrian chap tells us that Oscar is coming over and we are going to have an asado, this is roasted beef cooked on a BBQ. We go off with Oscar to purchase the meat, wood etc. A little butchers with a wooden fridge and an ancient band saw for cutting the meat, Martin was in his element looking round at the equipment and was devastated that neither of us had a camera with us, a first for Martin.
We took meat, wood, tomatoes beer and wine back to the campsite. Each pitch has its own BBQ, a concrete slab in 2 sections, but how do you have a Barbie with wood? Well you get a grill plate from the site a put that on one section and you light a fire on the other side as the fire burns you take the ashes and place them under the grill plate and there you have it. We had 4.5kg of steak and some chorizo sausage between 6 of us with bread, tomatoes, beer and wine, overkill, we couldn’t finish it all much to Franks disgust.
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