{"id":3819,"date":"2022-09-19T22:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T01:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2022-09-19T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T01:42:30","slug":"chaco-and-formosa-2022-day-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/3819","title":{"rendered":"Chaco and Formosa 2022 Day 32"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date<\/strong><\/em>: Monday 19 September 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trajectory<\/em><\/strong>:  Ituzaingo – Paso de la Patria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distance covered:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0260 km (with detours)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The storm continued all night, with lightning flashes and thunder rolls, the rain sounding heavy on the metal roof of my hotel room.  Got up to a wet world \u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and an indifferent breakfast (with undrinkable coffee), so headed to the nearest service station which was an ACA but not of the modern kind \u2013 very run down, and no wifi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But they still had the 5% ACA fuel discount, and the coffee, if slow in coming, was excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drove all morning through dark, wet highways to my stop for the night. Not the weather for birding; it rained hard pretty much all the way. I had arranged to go to the Maned Wolf Centre in Paso de la Patria (in season a sandy beach holiday resort, but not today!). But the Centre was closed \u2013 I\u2019m trying to arrange a visit for tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beer and luncheon on arrival in Paso de la Patria (one of the toughest milanesas de carne for a long time) and found my cabin for the night at Caba\u00f1as Belen Efrata. A huge, sprawling and very comfortable cabin with a lived in look I approve of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The owner, Marcelo, is on the same Provincial Tourism committee as Alejandra, who made the booking for me \u2013 an excellent overnighter for an excellent price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full kitchen facilities so for supper I made a packet soup with crackers and an apple. Wifi was iffy (where isn’t it?) but for once I was able to piggy back off my phone. Finally up to date with the blogging, but anticipate problems again as I hit the Chaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, my bird of the day, shot from the car through a gap in the clouds  \u2013 a golden-breasted woodpecker perched on a post boy the side of the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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