It started off with a solo excursion into town, so that I could make reservations for the tour to the penguin colony. Afterward, I walked around town for quite a while . . . I returned to the ship for lunch, and then went back to town for a little while. We piled into a van, and rode for about 90 minutes in order to reach the colony. On the way, we saw some rheas on the side of the road.
Rheas are large birds that look similar to ostriches.
We also saw some very small foxes that were really cute. The penguins live in burrows, as I explained in yesterday's journal. There was a trail that you could follow that went past hundreds and hundreds of these burrows. Throughout most of the area, the penguins were either hiding inside or standing next to their own burrow. There was also a lookout area over the water and we could see groups of penguins coming back from a day of fishing.