La Caleta Valdés and Magellanic penguins

Killer whales have a different favorite hunting ground of the peninsula: the Caleta Valdés. The strip of land that juts into the sea creating a small water reservoir around which a colony of elephant dozing sea at high tide, the orcs rush into the lagoon and come celebrate. In the keeper's house are given the tide times and those of the last passage of the Orcas.

Recent guests of the peninsula, a few miles from the Caleta Valdés, the Magellanic penguins. Of the 18 species found in Patagonia, they are among the smallest and most numerous ... (the settlement of the peninsula is rather modest, but they are 500 000 in Punta Tombo, 200 km south!). They settled in Valdés from September to April. Males arrive first to consolidate the nests and the females come to be lulled by their serenade ... They then lay an egg or two, they in turn convent for about a month. In October and November, the eggs crack to reveal a curious gray balls, coat the penguins lose after a few months to put in their best costume tails.

The transition from swimming, which they excel, is rather problematic in the march. They tangled brushes, then continue dignified, in a rather unstable shimmy. Add to that screeching to find their spouses and push the side and you will understand very quickly where the penguins get their irresistible comic sense ... They like us!