Argentina - Carlos Pellegrini & Esteros Del Ibera

Four hours on a converted school bus on a unpaved road, we arrived in the town of Carlos Pellegrini. The bus driver dropped us off here (um...Senor driver, donde esta the town?):
We took a boat tour of Esteros Del Ibera, a swamp area. Bill doing safety check:

We saw about fifty crocodiles:

This is a carpincho:
Marsh deer:
Even though we did not have our own bathroom at the hotel, we really liked it because we met nice, interesting Argentineans that spoke English there. We cannot get beyond ´hello, we are from California, we love your county´ in our Spanish conversations, and it was great being able to talk to the locals. We met a musician who plays double bass in a philharmonic, an art student and surfer, an English teacher and a biology student:Bill had to stop this pony from trying to get into our room:

To get to the next town, we rode in this four-wheel drive, converted truck on a dirt road:

I have been obsessed with seeing a real Argentinean gaucho (traditional cowboy) ever since we got to Argentina, which has not been too successful since gauchos are going extinct. Needless to say, I was very happy when our converted truck picked up three hitchhiking gauchos. One of them dropped what looked like a nail, so I picked it up for him - it was a bullet! How gaucho is that! We did not take any picture of them (we try to avoid annoying men with bullets), but here is a picture of another gaucho:

Gauchos?: