Our first long road trip took us to Peninsula Valdes where we beat the living daylights out of a hire car on the unmade roads, to see Sea Lions, Elephant Seals and Orcas beaching themselves to catch the baby seals. In spite of this blood lust, disappintingly for us, but happily for the baby seals, no Orcas put in an appearance. However, we did see a beach full of Magellanic penguins, Guanacos (a close relative of the Llama), flamingo and some hairy armadillos (at the risk of repeating a previous theme: lunch to a Guatemalan; a potential mandolin to an Argentine). Bizarrely, the peninsula is populated also by Merino sheep and cattle, foreign immigrants just like us.
