We didn’t intend this trip as a photography safari, but in Patagonia the animals out number the people and seem quite satisfied with that arrangement. They are very tolerant of tourists. The first thing I wanted to see was guanacos. Turns out they are quite numerous and I stopped taking pictures before photographing all 8000 in the park.
I was surprised to see flamingoes since I think of them as a tropical bird. Fortunately they were not constrained by the limits of my imagination and were all over the park.
We also got to see both red and grey foxes
and some kind of duck whose name the guide told me, but I forgot as we got close to dinner.
The following picture is of a male and female of the same species. The male is the black bird and the female is the white. Again, I was told the name, but could not remember it across the dinner hour. There is a lesson to be learned here.
And who could forget hiking in the Miledon Cave
to see a statue of the giant, but now extinct ground sloth.
Fortunately, the hike in the cave was on the only really rainy period we had on the trip. I have included a picture of the feet of a Alpaca just in case you thought you were in need of a pedicure. These have to be the ugliest feet I have ever seen.
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