Museum with dinosaurs.

The town of Puerto Madryn.
Our ship in the harbour next to another ship The Discovery.
Town.
Town.
Cute.

PUERTO MADRYN, ARGENTINA: A WELSH ENCLAVE-FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The tiny town Argentine town of Puerto Madryn lies on the western shores of Golfo Nuevo where the warm South Atlantic waters from Brazil provide a protected environment for a variety of animals, birds and sea creatures that come here to bear their young.
A Welsh gentleman in 1865 by the name of Viscount Parry Madryn emigrated from Wales to this part of Argentina along with several families who wanted to escape the Welsh mining towns. The Argentine government gave the families 247 acres of land and thus began "New Wales".
There is a promontory known as Punta Loma that is known as an important breeding spot for sea lions and a nature reserve has been established here.
Don went to see the wildlife and I walked the town.

AT SEA, EN ROUTE TO PUERTO MADRYN, ARGENTINA-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3.

We always have a full day at sea with fabulous lectures, Bingo, Bridge lessons and duplicate play, movies @ The Hollywood Theatre, dance lessons, art lessons, Yamaha lessons and today there is a Grand Gala Buffet and in the afternoon a tour of the Galley!(Crystal's Kitchen) Guests aboard a typical cruise consume over 50 lbs. of caviar, 4,000 lbs. of fresh fish, 30,000 eggs, 300 lbs. of fresh strawberries and well over four tons of bananas, oranges, mango, papayas, and melons. WOW!

The amazing King Penguins. (All dressed up and no place to go!)

Steve, Don and Nancy with the 4x4.( 7 hours riding in it!!!)
Lady Elizabeth-wrecked and left in the 1800's.
Memorial to the Falkland War in 1982 when Argentina tried to take over the Islands from the United Kingdom. The effort failed.
The governor's house right in the middle of town.
The Argentine Army put 35,ooo land mines in the countryside when they occupied the Islands in the 1982 War and they are still there today.

House in the Falklands. Many have brightly colored roofs.
Sheep that have been sheared in pen.
Rugged topography of land.
Magellanic Penguins who live in holes on the island.
King Penguins are so much fun to watch.
Some of these penguins have babies between their legs.
Don and Nancy among the colony of King Penguins.
Sign about the Penguins.
Our 5 hours in the 4x4 with Steve. Don in front seat. They drive on the opposite side of the road.
Sheep in the countryside.