Video we took from the boat
Stefan, Benjamin and I by the cliffs
To save pesos on guided excersions in Puerto Madryn (they are such a rip off in Puerto Madryn, especially since we got there on the first day of the tourist season- Oct 1st-.. I'd highly advise renting a car for the day and doing your own thing), we rented a car and went off of our map to make our own stops and watch whales off of cliffs (you can see them right from the beach). We made our way to a whaling town and got lunch before getting on a boat that got RIGHT NEXT TO the whales. It was UNBELIEVABLE! They swam right beneath the boat and being about to look down onto them into the clear water, instead of seeing only the tops of their bodies at eye level, made it an even crazier experience than kayaking alongside them. They are so graceful and their colas, tails, are SO BEAUTIFUL to watch falling back into the water.
Benjamin while we parked at the beach
Driving back to town to have some dinner before getting on our 11pm bus back to Cordoba, we stopped by a beach and saw some beached sea lions. The beach was blocked off but since we had not passed a car in forty minutes.. we jumped the fence.. One sealion was lying, it was so big I thought it was a baby whale and I came right up to it for a picture because I thought it was sleeping when all of a sudden it flipped over and made a really loud noise- absolutely terrified me and Benjamin, who had been waiting to take a picture, was laughing soo hard.
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