Gatoring

L and R watch in stunned silence as a picturesque scene with mountains and wild horses turns into a wild dance party.  The horses began doing the "gator".  This was exactly like we did it back in my college days in the frat house.  With Maurice Williams singing "Stay" or Duke Tomato doing "I want to tie you up", reasonably intelligent students would lay down in the beer soaked basement floor of the "house" and wiggle around with white boy rhythm.  This was ostensibly to impress girls.  The horses possibly have the same goal.  Also seen in the last two shots is a Gaucho, stunned to see the piggies forming a Conga Line.

Fire and Ice

The Patagonian landscapes remind me of fire and ice.....blues of the rivers, sky and glaciers; reds and oranges of the steppe and sun.  Some more interpretive landscapes.  Also, I forgot to include the photo of the Blacksburg Why-not-go's from the last post.  Here they are having lunch at the convention.

Why Not Go

There are millions of dogs in this region, but millions of Guanacos also.  Guanacos (pronounced somewhat like: why-not-go) are strange  "cameloid" animals that most of us have never heard of or seen. They are smaller than a horse and said to be about as tasty.  This explains their vast numbers.   Many times I had to ask them to move out of the picture.  Adding to their numbers was a convention from Blacksburg.

The Poop on Patagonia

Chili and Argentina are full of stray dogs.  There are millions of them just roaming the streets and countryside without apparent owners.  Americans seem to freek out when they see a stray but the people of Patagonia just seemed to accept them as a natural part of living.  That is in part because they don't seem to poop.  I am not kidding, all of those dogs and no mess on the sidewalks.   And who feeds them? I'm getting one of these new nothing in, nothing out breeds.

Patty Gonia

We took a photography tour to Patagonia recently.  Patagonia is the 1Msq K land area stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic at the southern tip of South America.  Chili and Argentina  divide this desolate and sparsely populated area of ice, rivers, desert and the Andes Mountains.  Three weeks of the dirt roads and hiking trails was not nearly enough of an experience in this place...the most beautiful area that I have been in the world.  I came home with 3500 shots and don't know how to show them except to just throw some up and see how it goes.  You might also be interested in the website of our guide, Rex Bryngleson, at      patagoniaphoto.com.  The final shot is Lourdes and Rex on the edge of a cliff looking for Condors.