{"id":6007,"date":"2015-02-07T14:16:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T13:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:31:32","slug":"afutile-waiting-at-the-punta-nortefutile-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/2015\/02\/07\/avergebliches-warten-an-der-punta-nortevergebliches-warten\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting in vain at Punta Norte"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Last attempt to see orcas at Punta Norte<\/li>\n<li>Drive back to the mainland and on to Trelew<\/li>\n<li>Overnight in Gaiman, of Welsh roots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Today we start with the sea lion colony near Puerto Piramides. In the whale season the mighty southern right whales can be observed from the mainland. The numerous sea lions can be seen diving in the crystal clear water.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=2121349615  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6009\" src=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_02_07_2.jpg\" alt=\"2015_02_07_2\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:1170\/h:658\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_02_07_2.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_02_07_2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\nThen we want to go up to the <b>Punta Norte<\/b> drive in the hope of seeing one of the rare orca attacks. To do this, we drive the almost 80 km on the dusty gravel road until we come to the noisy one <b>Sea lion colony<\/b> arrive. In the blazing midday sun it&#039;s time to wait and watch. The shifts daily <b>High tide<\/b> by a good 30 minutes, so that today the highest point occurs at 1.30 p.m. The sea is rougher than the days before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img data-opt-id=507921435  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6008\" src=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_02_07_1.jpg\" alt=\"2015_02_07_1\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:1170\/h:658\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_02_07_1.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_02_07_1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>As usual, the noisy sea lions are widely scattered on the sandy beach of Punta Norte. Are regularly from the sea\u00a0<b>returning adults<\/b> to see that seem to be surfing in the surf. <b>The massive animals are in their element in the water<\/b> and a lot faster than on land. After almost two hours we give up, it would have been too nice. Ultimately, our chances would be <b>one month later<\/b> it was probably much better, since the young sea lions then make their first attempts to swim. What the extremely intelligent killer whales know and therefore stop by here more often. After all, that&#039;s cute <b>armadillo<\/b> on the way again, unfortunately being fed by tourists.<\/div>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1139903444  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6010\" src=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_02_07_3.jpg\" alt=\"2015_02_07_3\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:1170\/h:658\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_02_07_3.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_02_07_3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>So we leave the Peninsula Vald\u00e9s and continue south. The next and only real city on the route for a long time <b>Trelew<\/b>. There we turn to <b>Gaiman<\/b>, where the <b>welsh culture<\/b> early immigrants are still cared for. We find a small hotel and a good restaurant in the town center, where we can have a delicious bottle\u00a0<b>Dada1 red wine<\/b> drink. The menu is also listed in Welsh.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Last attempt to see orcas at Punta Norte<\/li>\n<li>Drive back to the mainland and on to Trelew<\/li>\n<li>Overnight in Gaiman, of Welsh roots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div>Today we want to go up again to <b>Punta Norte<\/b> drive in the hope of seeing one of the rare orca attacks. To do this, we drive the almost 80 km on the dusty gravel road until we come to the noisy one <b>Sea lion colony<\/b> arrive. In the blazing midday sun it&#039;s time to wait and watch. The shifts daily <b>High tide<\/b> by a good 30 minutes, so that today the highest point occurs at 1.30 p.m. The sea is rougher than the days before.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[820,978,1157,1188],"tags":[682,966,1103,1189,1193,1194,1195,1201,1202,1203],"class_list":["post-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-suedamerika","category-argentinien","category-patagonien-argentinien","category-peninsula-valdes","tag-seeloewen","tag-argentinien","tag-patagonien","tag-chubut","tag-peninsula-valdes","tag-punta-norte","tag-puerto-piramides","tag-trelew","tag-gaiman","tag-walisisch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}