Puerto Madryn & the Penguin Colony

On Wednesday morning we docked bright and early at Puerto Madryn, Argentina.




We ate breakfast in bed. I got a little carried away with the room-service menu.
Dozens of coaches lined up on the dock to take us on tours. We went to the Punto Tombo penguin rookery, the largest penguin colony outside Antarctica, with more than 300,000 penguins.
We spent hours enraptured by the Magellanic penguins on the beach.

Further up from the beach they were nesting.

Penguin meets alpaca.

He just woke up from a nap.

The two on the right were scolding the one on the left for getting too close to their love nest.

After a fun-filled day, we hopped back on the boat and watched as the mooring lines were dropped and we pulled out to sea.

My honey and I ate dinner at the Four Seasons dining room while we sped further south in the South Atlantic.

The last shades of daylight lingered on the horizon outside our stateroom window. On the deck, there was a distinct chill in the air as the swells rocked our ship.