| Outside of Tucson, Arizona, we saw a sign for Patagonia. Only 37 miles! We're on our way! |
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| First stop: Buenos Aires. A lovely city. Not far from our hotel, we found a monument to queen Beatrix. Why? Who knows. The queen was absent, for maintainance. | 
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| Next on to the North, to Iguazu falls, on the border with Brazil. These falls are giagantic. |
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| This boat took us right underneath one of them. | 
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| Iguazu is in a semitropical rainforest. This suspension bridge leads to our hotel room. Cool birds too, including toucans. | 
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| Next halfway down the Argentinean coast, to the city of Trelew, and the Valdes peninsula. In Trelew there is a paleontology lab where dinosaur finds from the region are prepared and studied. |
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| One of the lead researchers showed us around the lab. | 
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| From the peninsula, we went on a whale watch. Saw southern right whales, with their babies. | 
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| On the North shore of the peninsula there is a colony of magellanic penguins. There were thousands. It was breeding season, and there were courting couples, nests with eggs, nests with chicks. | 
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| Our next destination was Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world.
How far south? Look at the orientation of these solar panels (pointing North).
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| November is springtime. This is at the foot of the Moreno glacier. | 
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| Punta Arenas is on the Chilean side of Patagonia.
The total eclipse of 4 December 2021 did not reach the mainland of South American mainland. So what do you do? You rent a plane, actually two, and you sell only the seats on the left-hand side. |
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From Punta Arenas, the planes flew into the path of the
total solar eclipse, and back again.
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| And here is the whole intrepid gang. | 
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