Still on strike...

Turkeys!

 

I like the fat one one the far right, with the belly and the feet that are just dangling.

So it's been very quiet.  On Sunday I went on a hike with Nancy, Valeria, and Nathaniel, a fellow gringo who splits his time between Futa and Esquel.  We climbed the Cerro la Bandera, and had a snowball fight on the way down.  Then we got pizza with Jonathan, one of my housemates, and talked GRE vocabulary.  (Cleave is its own antonym.)  

View from about 2/3 of the way up.  Big scenes like this always remind me of the end of The Land Before Time (the first) when the Littlefoot and Sarah and Spike and Ducky and Petri all come out into the Big Valley...

Here we're almost at the top.  I wanted to share this especially because you may be able to see that there is moss on the right side of that tree stump, and the sun is setting behind us, which means that here the moss grows on the south side of the tree.  I just assume that this is so because we're in the Southern hemisphere.  

Nancy, in the mud.

Nathaniel and Nancy, checking out their complexions in the perfectly still water.

This is that weird spiky plant that grows all over El Espolón.  Doesn't it seem like a throwback to the Jurassic Era?

I like this photo because it seems suitably dramatic.

Nancy and Valeria.

Snowball fight!  Valeria was at the rear of our party, and she would let loose with some huge blocks of snow -- the size of those turkeys at the beginning.  Then there was Nancy:

She was just in front of me, and would hide behind bushes and attempt to ambush Valeria.  This was an unfortunately and unsurprisingly unsuccessful strategy, because she was wearing purple and was therefore spotted every time.  I sure she has learned from her mistakes and will do much better in the future.