On checking in, we enquire about tours here and after a phone call, are booked into the trip leaving early next day. We are up for a simple breakfast and picked up in a small MB van with 7 others to go visit the national refuge for Humbolt penguins and dolphins. It’s a 2 hour drive up north and then on a bumpy road out to the coast at Punta de Choros, an old mine port and now small port for fishing and tourist trips to the protected islands.
What an amazing day! First we see wild guanacos, the coastal llamas, beautiful soft camel haired beasts with long eyelashes. Then a stop for some small wild foxes that frequent a certain part of the road for some reason.
There is mining in these parts and a plan to build a new port which will interfere with the fauna and sea life is being hotly contested. e sign the petition.
Puerto de Choros is at the end of a dry dusty road being developed for more tourist traffic. An hour later 24 off us don our life jackets and board the open boat with a side windbreak and canvas roof which helps keep the burning sun off. I still get a sunburn on my head! Note to wear hat not visor in this sun. Water splashes in and I just escape having a wet bum for the rest of the trip.
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