Puerto Madryn, Argentina, 21 december 2009.
Position: S 42*45' / W 65*01'50
Because it was saturday afternoon and a sunny beautifull day there were many little sailboats from the local yachtclub sailing around our boat.
We were the only foreign sailing boat in the bay and the all greeted us with big waving of theis arms.
The commodore of the yachtclub came several times in a dinghy and advised us to anchor more outside because of the danger of a changing wind and big waves.We invited him with a friend for a drink of genever with ice which they seemingly did not like
The name of the yacht club “Club Nautico Atlantico Sur”was very helpfull. The commodore is called Malebo.
Puerto Madryn is a pretty town with a lot of shops.
It is named after his founder, the Welsh Jones Parry, Baron of Madryn, who settled here in 1865.
There is no marina and you have to lie on the anchor. The anchorage is rather unprotected and after the wind turned we were moving very uncomfortable on the swell.
It was then also very difficult to reach the boat from the beach because of the big waves.
It proved to be a ride of 400 kilometers!
Enormous empty pampa’s and sometimes we saw some wildlife and cattle: horses, sheep, cows, many birds and this strange animal called “Guanaco”on the photo.
At the coast we saw many of the sea lions and pinquins. But alas no orca’s or whales.
The whales are on their way to Antartica we were told after breeding baby whales in this bay.
When we left Malebo with a friend helped us also with getting rid of all the seaweed around the anchor chain (see photo). At an age of seventy he is still an active diver!
