Pengüinos and Seagulls

After leaving Torres de Paine, we made our way to Punta Arenas. Not really too flashy for most people, but for us an important stop. Most exciting part is that the road is called The Road to End of the World!

We have been on a scavenger hunt for new tires and fixing our Steinschlag now for about 2 weeks, each workshop and parts store sending us to their buddy at the next. Finally, them all ending with go to Punta Arenas. I was not about to pay 1000€ for tires in Argentina… The scavenger hunt continued in Punta Arenas, after about 4 shops we finally got some new tires. Writing this blog post from the Daimler dealership just getting an inspection and trying to see if they will fix the Steinschlag. The exchange of the propane tank was also a fun 3 hour scavenger hunt yesterday, but yes, now we have gas. But I doubt you wish to read about our all-day tasks and wish to here more about the adventures, so here we are, Punta Arenas!

Here we took a ferry out to the Isla Magdalena, to the Monumento Natural Los Pengüinos. Sum it up, an island filled with Penguins. And Flocks of seagulls. Unlike the Frey-Lion, the Freygüinos were very active and running about.

You have to walk a very restrcited path with park rangers I feel so bad for because they have a stick with a duct tape ball at the end to push the tourists away from the Pengüitos that decide they too want to walk the path. Great job. I loved the warnings, they started so soft with, no flash photos, don’t leave the path, and escalated until don’t feed the penguins, don’t touch the penguins, don’t interact with the penguins, don’t mock the penguins, etc. Guess how many girls did the penguin walk next to a penguin for a picture? That’s right, all of them!

After an hour of chillin’ with the Penguins and walking a path of pure penguin and seagull poo (a lot of it was red?) back on the ferry we go and make our way back. Unfortunately both our phones ran out of battery at the park and we couldn’t snap any pictures from the orca’s eating penguins on the ferry ride back. Oh well.

Other than that, lots of scavenger hunt action and when Hubi is done getting checked out from the Daimler dealership at the end of the world, we start a long long haul to Ushuaia, the Argentinian end of the world. More penguins, glaciers and waterfalls to come!