Date: Sunday 28 August 2022

Trajectory:  Resistencia – Formosa

Distance covered: 180 km

Rained very heavily in the Resistencia night. Indifferent breakfast, ruined by too many noisy kids assembled in the dining room for a Tae Kwon Do competition. Went to pick up car from cochera and realised it was cold, quite a surprise after the heat of last night. 

It was a short drive today, so I took it very easily, exploring byways a piacere. But first I stopped for a decent coffee, car as always where I could see it.

And then I hit the open road …

My little deviations took me through some pretty towns, which the highways tend to bypass …

 … and I passed quite a few shrines, the red flags on this one linking it to the cult of the Gauchito Gil.

Finally I came to the border with Formosa Province, the only province in Argentina I had not previously visited. 

My bird of the day: the Shiny Cowbird, because there were so many clouds of them all along the highway … 

… but a special mention for this wood stork and great egret who were sharing a roadside pool.

And I recorded the demise of a roadkill comadreja – not at all sure what this would be in English.

And finally to my Formosa hotel, booked for me by Ariel, my guide for the next few days.  It’s a bit 1984 inside and there was no hot water until 18.00 but it seems comfortable enough.

And tomorrow the birding trip with Ariel begins.