{"id":3962,"date":"2022-09-30T21:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T00:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2022-10-01T22:51:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T01:51:44","slug":"chaco-and-formosa-2022-day-42-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/3962","title":{"rendered":"Chaco and Formosa 2022 Day\u00a043"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date<\/strong><\/em>: Friday, 30 September 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trajectory<\/em><\/strong>: Ituzaingo – Ober\u00e1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distance covered:<\/em><\/strong> 180 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left Ituzaingo after early breakfast. Went to YPF to fill up with diesel and found huge queues so left till later, trusting to luck and my jerry cans. Stopped at second YPF along the road and was limited to 40 lts \u2013 seems fuel is in short supply in Misiones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a last ditch attempt to score a monjita dominicana digressed 1k km down the RP41 towards Pelligrini \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 but nothing doing birdwise, so came back and drove on to  a new province, Misiones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 and on to the town of Santa Ana. The weather was vile all morning, torrential rain still, so I chose an indoor activity \u2013 a butterfly house \u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 where there were not too many residents owing to the time of the year, but all bright and colourful on this miserable day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I rather liked the colouring on this one \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drove on to Ober\u00e1 as the rain began to ease off and visited a \u2018bird garden there\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 where the steep and uneven walkways would never pass an H&S check. The number of birds was very small and some were in very small cages; not a wonderful collection, though the park was lovely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One example was this red-breasted toucan \u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But this was not my bird of the day \u2013 instead, a campo flicker, shot from the car window in a moment when the rain eased off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Found a pleasant looking hotel in Obera, with individual cabins spread across a park. \u2013 aptly called the Hotel Caba\u00f1as del Parque. A huge complex, it seemed empty other than me. I ate in a large and empty dining hall that reminded me of \u2018The Shining\u2019. My cabin was fine though (at the back in the picture below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A good supper (chicken and salad), and a cold evening. The last two nights have been quite cold – something I don’t associate with Misiones. Tomorrow north, towards Iguazu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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