[Music] so we're going to start off with a place that's pretty accessible and easy to
get to before heading to another place this week that is pretty hard to get to and could
be a complete waste of time
[Music] this is Cabo dos Bahias [Music] this was a really cool stop because we got to check
out Penguins emus which are actually called ñandos or choique here in Argentina and sometimes
in Chile also armadillos guanacos all hanging out with Magellanic penguins super cute place
the boardwalk was well maintained and it made it really easy to walk around the penguin
habitat without disturbing them these penguins are there by choice and so are all these other
animals there's no fences or anything like that it's just a protected area that Argentina
is keeping for the Penguins to stay healthy [Music]
we're heading to Puerto madryn to restock before heading out into nature oh we just
got back from the grocery we said where's Graham
how did you get down in there look at that I can't even really see him there's his little
head
good morning today we are heading to one of oh one of my most sought after I don't know
how do you say it like I really really am excited to get to this spot so we're heading
over to Valdez Peninsula on this peninsula there's some amazing things happening there
are baby sea lions being sprouted all over the place and where there are baby sea lions
there are you know mother nature takes his Course and there are things that want to eat
the baby sea lions and those are orcas and these orcas actually try and Beach themselves
to get the baby sea lions and we just happen to be here at the perfect time so you have
to be incredibly lucky to see this because orcas don't normally do this there are different
types of orcas and they all have a different ecological niche that they fill so these types
of orcas eat sea lions and usually they just eat sea lions in the water but in this part
of the world they have taught their young how to beach themselves to eat the sea lions
the baby sea lions and I am just so hoping that we're lucky enough to see it I feel like
we've been pretty lucky lately I found out about it just from iOverlander and then I've
started doing more research from there and it seems like this is the time to go specifically
you have to go during high tide or before high tide When the tide is getting highest
or they can't get off the beach and the other cool part about this spot is we met up with
our friends to come and see it so Catherine and Klaus are with us once again and we're
excited to try and bring all the Orca Vibes to get these guys around us so we can see
some really cool stuff we're heading to Punta Norte to find this stuff there are other places
along the coast that you can see it but around this time that we're here it's best to see
it from Punta Norte so we're going to try there first and maybe we'll check out the
rest of the park other days [Music]
thank you
unfortunately no luck yet but I did talk to the park ranger and I have a little bit better
idea of when we could potentially see these orcas hunting in their crazy way that's different
from all the other orcas she gave me the tide chart which is wildly different from most
tide charts I've ever seen because this part is about an hour different from the part over
on a different part of the peninsula I don't know I guess I haven't looked at tide charts
that often but it doesn't seem like there should be an hour different I mean maybe they're
50 kilometers away so that's kind of interesting the orcas are more likely to hunt three hours
before and three hours after the high tide so that's like a six hour window which is
kind of a long time to be watching but you know six hours it sounds like a really nice
time to read and one of us can also do it and the other one could hang out in the van
which is a huge Plus for having the van because no one over there is going to be able to work
on their laptop whereas we'll be able to hang out and work on our laptops and lucky for
us as well we can have lunch in here together so Danny's cooking us up something really
nice and thank you so much
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oh cool
oh man it's too bad we didn't find any orcas today but we have decided to give ourselves
five chances to see the orcas so this is just chance number one you need to have a lot of
patience to see these guys but what a amazing reward if you do get to see them so hopefully
we can keep with our patients maybe learn how to have more patients and we'll be able
to see the orcas even without the orcas it's pretty epic here just how different the low
tide is in the high tide so just seeing that seeing all these sea lions everywhere babies
playing playing walk around with their parents
not a bad day even if we didn't see the orcas
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so we definitely messed up today we did a couple of things wrong we looked up the time
chart online assuming it was correct and it wasn't if we had stopped at The Visitor Center
we would have found that out we really underestimated the washboard road on the way here thinking
that everyone was being super dramatic but it is very bumpy so loud and it takes an hour
and a half and since it's illegal to camp out on the points we're going to have to drive
it twice a day to make it to the approved camping site over in piramides so now that
we know we're going to be waking up super early tomorrow to try and catch high tide
over in the other spot it'll be our second chance at finding some orcas there is a 50
50 chance you haven't subscribed and you should because it's free and it helps us find more
people who love traveling by Van to Crazy places like this
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and nothing yet I see some people looking with their binoculars
hoping today is better we're in a different place called Caleta Valdez yesterday there
were orcas here at 8am now it's already 9 43 but of course high tide is different every
day so hoping today we're hitting it at the right time we've been here already for about
two hours we woke up at 6 30 to get here but yeah we're hoping these chances are going
to work out we give ourselves five chances this is the second one hoping for some good
results there's a couple things I'm not liking this one is much about instead of Punta Norte
the first is the sea lion colony is way farther away from us but on the plus side we can wait
in our cars and we can see so that's kind of nice
oh no luck again today [Music]
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[Music] number three of looking for orcas we're going to be going back to Punta Norte
this morning oh
[Music] there he is [Music] okay
is coming in for an attack because you haven't seen him for a minute oh my God we were gutted
when we got here hearing they showed up yesterday and we went to the other spot but it turned
out it was just from afar they saw seven orcas and it was super rainy and kind of gross so
I think the other spot was a winner yesterday because we could sit in the Vans but we were
so upset that's true that's true and it was nice that we asked the ranger you know because
at first we were just so gutted to see that they saw orcas but when she said they saw
him from kind of far and they weren't hunting um we felt a little better than we missed
it but she told us also oh two already passed by they went North so keep an eye this way
she was right about five minutes later they come back from the north yeah and there's
running and yeah we saw the people running and so we chased over there and saw we saw
them and they were probably at some points like 10 feet away from the beach but it's
still not high tide yet so we're sitting here hoping for the best already pretty exciting
already sour because so we're stoked but we really want to see him hunting here the only
place in the world they hunt like this where they Beach themselves strand themselves on
the beach to NAB a sea lion and share it with the less skilled yeah Hunters because this
is a really complex maneuver they're pulling off here right now it's about an hour and
10 minutes from high tide and it seems like they do it just before high tide so we're
probably going to be watching them Circle the area for about another hour and then hopefully
they get to see them yeah we haven't seen them for a couple minutes you know so fingers
crossed kind of like playing Lottery except you got to drive an hour and a half on a pretty
rough road each way before you can buy your ticket and uh the van was definitely making
some some noises that I'm a little bit worried about but uh yeah at least we saw some workers
today and hopefully they come back and do their thing yeah this is the only place in
the world where they hunt like this some other orcas will use bubbles to trap fish like herring
in Norway or no with their tail make like a sonic wave with the sound that stuns the
fish but uh here is kind of the coolest way in the whole world [Music] I'm so proud
[Music] [Applause]
[Music] so to be honest that bumpy road or us then we gave ourselves five chances to
see these circus but we're only actually gonna go for three we really don't want to come
back and forth on that horrible hour and a half bumpy road again so unfortunately we
aren't going to be seeing any hunting orcas this video but at least we did see some work
as we saw penguins and we saw a lot of sea lions it's just too exhausting for us to drive
three hours a day on these washboard roads so I guess we still have a lot to learn about
patients this peninsula is also super amazing in November and December as well there are
southern right whales migrating down to the Antarctic Peninsula if you are in the area
this place is a is so perfect for wildlife so check it out see if there's anything going
on in Valdez Peninsula and I hope you have way better luck than we did let me know what
you think about this place in the comments and we will see you for tea time on Thursday
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thank you