every move. At one point the large male came a little too close for comfort and we decided not to chance our luck and moved on. To our surprise these inquisitive little creatures starting following us and every time we stopped so did they, they were playing a game of hide and seek with us! It was totally fantastic to see them in such close proximity in the wild and them being so unafraid of us. We stayed and watched them for ages and where ever we moved they followed. I’m not sure if there were any babies in the group but some did seem a lot smaller than others and the large Alpha male didn’t look like he’d want to be messed with, so we gave him the widest berth! It was such an improved day from the day before, not only in terms of weather but in the wildlife that we had already seen and this was even before our boat trip. Thankfully we even managed to get some pretty good photos of these delightful monkeys and both felt very privileged to have seen them in their natural ha

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From here we walked down to the fairly waterlogged campsite. We had been missing our tent as the camping possibilities in Argentina our endless, but after all of the previous days rain we were quite happy to be warm and dry in our cottage hostel! We found some boat men and after an animated conversation we established a price and time for a boat trip into the lagoon. We were to be back at the campsite just before 5 p.m. so we thought we head back home to chill for a couple of hours.

Around 4.30 p.m. we decided we couldn’t wait any longer and started to get ready and then headed down towards the campsite. Our boat men were waiting so it wasn’t long before we climbed aboard and set sail. Well when I say set sail I mean, climb into a boat a resembles a tin bath and enjoy the sound of a lawn-mower style engine! It was beautiful heading