{"id":2813,"date":"2017-08-28T08:17:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T11:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2017-08-28T22:04:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T01:04:04","slug":"trip-through-northern-argentina-and-paraguay-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/2813","title":{"rendered":"Trip through Northern Argentina and Paraguay \u2013 Day 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

27 August 2017 \u2013 Mburucuy\u00e1 – Ituzaing\u00f3 \u2013 Rain, rain, go away \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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My only usable photo in a day of torrential rain,but not a bad one: a male long-winged harrier …<\/p><\/div>\n

Slept extremely well. Torrential rain most of the night, so the Park ranger was right and I\u2019ll not be able to have a second chance at the Mburucuy\u00e1 national Park, which is a shame but hey, it is what it is. Not even in Silver for a day or so till it dries out a bit.<\/p>\n

Breakfasted on a coffee bag and a packet of cream crackers and set off for Ituzaing\u00f3, retracing my steps some 50 km to Saladas as given last night\u2019s rain I want to stick to tarmac today. Intention was to drive slowly through the Western side of the Esteros and see what I can see.<\/p>\n

First half of the day was dull and overcast \u2013 poor light for photos. The sun came out a few times for a minute or so, but it was very windy and all the birds seem to have hunkered down. Stopped for lunch in a small town; huge and wholly unidentifiable cuts of roast meat accompanied by boiled cassava, with bread and wine. Filling, and reasonably tasty, but cordon bleu it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Back on the road and the last 200 km were done in horrendous rain, quite frightening, and very slow \u2013 at one stage I actually stopped as I could see nothing. Thunder and lightning all around, and I saw a lightning fork hit a tree not a hundred metres from the car \u2013 I could see flames and smoke through the rain \u2013 quite alarming, and I get telling myself that carts have rubber wheels.<\/p>\n

Finally got to my cabin in Ituzaing\u00f3 to find no one there, and had to wait an hour in the car in the pouring rain until the site owners returned from mass. It\u2019s all a bit informal up here, and I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n

On account of the weather, no photos today to speak of, and fingers crossed for tomorrow, although as I turn in for the night the weather shown no sign on letting up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

27 August 2017 \u2013 Mburucuy\u00e1 – Ituzaing\u00f3 \u2013 Rain, rain, go away \u2026 Slept extremely well. Torrential rain most of the night, so the Park ranger was right and I\u2019ll not be able to have a second chance at the Mburucuy\u00e1 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-2","category-trip-ne-argentina-and-paraguay","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}