Puerto Madryn: Sad to Go

So today we leave Puerto Madryn. The weather held for the last few days so we finished up our PADI course.. or sort of. We wrote the final exam today and just have to pass that.....

Yesterday we went to Punta Tombo to see the Magallanic penguins there. They say there are close to 1,000,000 penguins in the colony, and the most of any colony outside the Antarctic. It was a long day on a tour bus, just to get an hour and a half there, but it was great fun dodging penguins on the path, laughing at the feather shedding babies and watching the lines of penguins entering the water.

We stopped in Gaimen, a Welsh settlement, on the way back to Puerto Madryn and we decided to splurge on some Welsh tea. We dined with some South Africans and chatted about our future travels as we ate pastries and biscuits until we were stuffed and downed it all with REAL TEA and milk, WITHOUT HAVING TO ASK FOR IT.

Tonight, after we get our exam checked with leave for Buenos Aires. It is close to an 18 hour haul and then we hope to catch a bus immediately for another 18 hours to Puerto Igazu. Our time is cut a little short so we will be there only a few days before we have to return to Buenos Aires and then go to Canada....

Time here in Puerto Madryn has been kind of fun as the people at the dive shop are pretty fun and when the weather is down we spent time drinking mate outside the shop and just chilling.. It will be kind of sad to leave today...