It was 50 miles down a gravel road to Punto Tomba, where we were going to try and see more penguins.
All the way there, Trevor moaned about the state of the road, the wind, the detour, and that these had better be the best damn penguins he had ever seen!
They were. We hadn’t even got into the car park before we saw them.
Even Trevor got excited and wanted to take the photos.
I didn’t really know what to expect before we got there, but I certainly didn’t expect there to be 500,000 Magellanic penguins (the biggest penguin colony outside of Antarctica) and you to be able to walk freely among them.
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(they are NOISY blighters!)
The park is an excellent and very chill reserve. There are a couple of raised paths and bridges, which are shared with the penguins, but other than that you just have to stay on the gravel paths. Penguins have right of way, as is only proper 
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(a sign I never thought I’d see!)
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The penguins share their habitat with guanaco (apparently NOT llama – oops!), rabbits, and small rodents called cavies.
We gave up any desire to get anywhere that night and spent hours watching the penguins waddle down to the sea where they swim like bullets, and wobble back up again.
The one-minute instruction briefing asks you to keep to the path and try and stay a metre away from the penguins – but sometimes they won’t stay a metre away from you!
I’m pretty sure these 3 are drunk and toddling off home for the night to sleep it off!
Here are a few movies I shot with the little camera (forgive the poor quality and the jerkiness, video obviously isn’t my thing, but I love to see them waddle!)
