Where do you hide the rockhopper penguin?

30 January, 2011

In this windswept island walk around the beautiful Patagonian Rockhopper penguins, those nice jumpers that the English call «rock hopper». What we are talking island? Where is the only penguin in the South Atlantic where the most common living Magellanic penguins? A nod to the curious reader: the most famous of all passed through here in naturalistic 1834. The solution, as always, in a week in “From Patagonia”, the blog of writer and traveler VOD Gerald Bartholomew.

byGerardo Bartolomé

Published January 30, 2011

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