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Penguin Island Adventure Tourism(Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz.)
New protected from the open sea area is 18 km from Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz. It takes its name from the iconic penguin rockhopper, you only see here, and in the Falklands, South Georgia, the Staten Island and Cape Horn. A whole adventure tourism output. Would you like to go or already been there?
born Penguin Island with the PN Makenke of San Julián, protecting the elephant seal colony based on the cliffs of the adjoining room. From the coastline to the twelve nautical mile limit of our territorial sea, extending this new Park 159 526 hectares of pure ocean, islands and shipwrecks.
For Penguin, not just the island itself, but covers other islands, seabed and subsoil, important in the life cycle of the southern hake, Patagonian shrimp and squid, among other species. At land portions also nest several coastal marine species, such as South American terns, Southern seagull, cormorant and gray rocker. In spring the skuas are lords and masters. As is with newborn chicks, they can be especially aggressive if they feel threatened (and of course, if they own the island, where the human population is reduced to zero population) flying low over the heads of tourists and more one would have taken a hat.
Penguin Island has it all: some of the Hitchcock movie The Birds, some National Geographic and some Robinson Crusoe. A lot of that feeling is working lighthouse 22 meters high, having a first section and a second masonry of iron. It was left to service in 1903. It had a light system of the French firm Barbier, Benard and Turenne. He was fed kerosene, until 1924, when it changed to acetylene gas. In 1983 the electrified with photovoltaic panels, which reduced its scope to 16 nautical miles. Along the way, lost the "keepers" and Magellanic penguins were appropriated the house, using the nursery and refuge at will.
Small-does not exceed 50 hectares, part of the strangeness of walking by his few wild trails it is clear that the group that landed for a few hours is large minority compared to 30,000 Magellanic penguins and two thousand Rockhopper who live in their bluffs. The latter are the star players in place, the low-profile suitors, that fit very smug "the bottom" of the island, where the cliffs drop almost straight into the sea. Until then climb the rockhopper - "jump rock" - that intense red eyes and orange beak are distinguished by their short height (measured only 40 cm) by yellow feathers on the sides of the head. Between April and September remain offshore, feeding on crustaceans, fish and cephalopods. In spring they return to shore to mate, prepare the nest, mate, lay eggs-two, usually of one-usually survive and care for the young. They leave the colony in March after moving child down by the juvenile plumage and make an outline of plume.
In Argentina, this is the most accessible colony. Other rookeries are on remote islands as the Malvinas, Georgias and Staten Island. The latter is the most important in our country, with 27.3% of the world population. If you sit among them, the idea is not to touch them, not feed or disturb them. They can shoot you better take pictures, because it is the only way to portray the small jumps with advancing: it involves intense physical effort, but if you are tired, do not show it. In reality, individual birds are very different from the prime "Magellan" but as calm and yours that seem accustomed to fame. They just left arms to sign autographs. In the opposite direction, as in other "neighborhood", inhabit the sea lions. That itself is an ode to indolence, laziness in militancy.
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