{"id":3805,"date":"2022-09-18T17:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T20:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2022-09-18T17:55:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T20:55:03","slug":"chaco-and-formosa-2022-day-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/3805","title":{"rendered":"Chaco and Formosa 2022 Day 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date<\/strong><\/em>: ~Sunday 18 September 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trajectory<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0 Don Luis – Ituzaingo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distance covered:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00b1 60 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early to bed last night, after another splendid meal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a six o\u2019clock breakfast we drove back to civilisation, and then made our way to Bah\u00eda Caraya where we had intended to go on a boat journey on the river\/lake and through the marshland.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But it was not to be. The water was very rough and it would have been uncomfortable and probably unsafe …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… so with Horacio Matarrasso, who had joined us with an Australian birder, we worked our way through the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Caraya\u2019 means howler monkey, and we saw plenty of them: some thoughtful …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and some more aggressive. Rightly is they called \u2018howler\u2019 monkeys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plenty of time to socialise over mate with a good guy whose name I never got \u2013 but I did like the way he walked around with his mate and thermos \u2026.\u00a0it’s a very Argentine thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I was impressed by his collection of knives\/facones, all super sharp. Knives seems to be all a thing in Corrientes Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then back to Casa Bonita to catch up on blog, etc. I had just checked in when the heavens opened, and I found myself hoping Ale and Cepi would get back on the trails where the sand would be changing to mud. But with a Hilux I\u2019m sure they will have been OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bird of the day \u2013 a white-browed meadowlark, seen on the road between Don Luis and Ituzaingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My worst experience of the trip so far was to follow: I went from my room in the hotel to the car to get some stuff and the wind blew the hotel door closed with my keys [and more importantly my phone] inside. I am the only person in the hotel and being Sunday there was no resident staff (it\u2019s a strange sort of hotel altogether). For a while I didn\u2019t know what to do. Ingenuity won the day; by enquiring at various houses in the street I was able to find someone with the hotel owner\u2019s telephone number and all was OK. But not the best way to spend three hours on a stormy afternoon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spent the rest of the day getting blogs, etc. up to date, now that I have wifi again. Tomorrow heading west again towards Chaco and will sleep outside Resistencia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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