stoney woods

At Sarmiento, 30 km far, is one of the two petrified woods we were going to visit
They are called "wood", because their trees weren`t dragged along by rivers or glaciers, as it happened at other places in the world.. so, they have unique characteristics.




At the beginning of the Tertiary Era , the Andes Range arose and thus, prevented the Pacific ocean`s humidity from passing, producing eruptions. The ash and lava`s deposits spread allowing a slow process of transformation of these trunks into stone..



it is hard to imagine that this arid place was a fertile region, with woods and lagoons, inhabited by a varied fauna, which rests were found fossilized, as well.
but not also the woods were impressive.. landscapes there are breathtaking!

what it remained..

at beginning of XX century, a ship didn't succeed to enter to a safe coast. We captured its rests, still laying and visible with low tide!


lazy guy, and awesome background at Punta cantor, still at Valdes peninsule

for one second, he paid attention to us.. enough to make this portrait.. =)


we left peninsula, and were ready to leave.. a petrified wood would come next...

whales!

A day at Peninsula Valdes, with a boat trip to may capture these fantastic whales.. Southern Right Whales(Eubalaena australis)...
they arrive at this place to mate and breed their young...





but there were also other kind of guys swimming and having fun in this waters =)



Some, like to be more posing, just in the case some photographers may pass and capture their style



the sun was setting and the following day would bring more fauna to capture!

Buenos Aires feelings... and more

Buenos Aires, the cafe Tortoni and some of greatest Argentine culture icons gave us some best moments...

the 34 degrees, gave us not so good ones! ufff =)


but the sunset of our frist day travelling to patagonia, was sooooo wonderful!!


we arrived at Puerto Pirámide, a small village in Peninsula Valdes... at-4C!
the beautiful landscapes were just an appetizer to the following day, shooting whales!

last images

We had to leave our car at Belen to be repaired... (deep sigh)

We rented a car and went to shoot the beautiful biosphere reservoir of Laguna Blanca and flamingos there.

We returned to Buenos Aires by bus and tomorrow , we leave again, now to Patagonia, so we will be probably not online for a couple of days...

but in next posts, we will start showing Patagonia in the famous and the unknown way

Our friends took us to Antofagasta de la Sierra, where we found a man with a van who would pull our car back to the city. 65 km far at an altitude of 4500 m, and t wasnt that fast job.
The impressive starry night was there, among all stops we had to do becuase the rope this man had was a disaster... twinkling stars to bright our spirit..




finally, we got back to the village, where a mechanic tried to repair it...
He didnt succeed!
Then, an unexpected solution appeared...
the car would be taken inside a truck to a near city, Belen...






meanwhile, we shot some beautiful volcanic landscapes in the nearbies...

The houses were Antofalla village and we found refugee from the storm until the following day.
We found there another car, with Analia and Maxi that needed to stop. We both gave gas oil to the generator of the village............ so that night the 30 inhabitants, our new friends and us , had three hours of electricity

The following day, we departed to Antofagasta de la sierra, following an impressive road






but after making some shots, our friends who were coming with us, noticed a spot of oil at the ground...
the car was broken...