Leg 277, Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz Province to Las Grutas, Rio ■■■■■, Argentina
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Back up along the same departments as I went down, except on the east coast. Totally different landscape. It actually feels a bit like flying over Fallout 3, lot of browns.
05-25 Puerto Deseado West SA19 7:56 AM
05-25 Puerto Deseado SA62 8:02 AM
05-25 Puerto Deseado SA61 8:16 AM
05-25 Caleta Olivia SA31 8:19 AM
05-25 Fitz Roy SAKJ 8:26 AM
05-25 Canadon Seco CDS 8:40 AM
05-25 Caleta Olivia SAQW 8:47 AM
05-25 13 De Diciembre SARA 9:02 AM
05-25 Gen Enrique Mosconi Intl SAVC 9:08 AM
05-25 Sarmiento SAQQ 9:22 AM
05-25 Colonia Sarmiento SAUT 9:35 AM
05-25 Lago Musters SAVM 9:37 AM
05-25 Las Plumas Filed SAOO 10:31 AM
05-25 Dique Florentino Ameghino SAPQ 10:45 AM
05-25 Dolavon SA45 11:01 AM
05-25 Trelew Aeroclub SA34 11:10 AM
05-25 Almirante Zar SAVT 11:12 AM
05-25 Rawson SARW 11:17 AM
05-25 Punta Delgada Field SAPO 11:41 AM
05-25 Caleta Valdes Field SAPM 11:49 AM
05-25 Puerto Piramides SAPT 12:00 PM
05-25 Bahia Dorada SATT 12:21 PM
05-25 Sierra Grande SA91 12:27 PM
05-25 Antoine De Saint Exupery SAVN 12:49 PM
Flight time 4:53 23 stops
Puerto Deseado, ready for departure at sunrise
Short hop to my first stop, SA62 (no name) in Deseado Department
Taking a peek above the early morning fog
Crossing Highway 3 headed for the coast, no name available for the river
Caleta Olivia located at the northeast of Santa Cruz province, on the San Jorge Gulf
El Gorosito • Monumento al trabajador petrolero, monument to the oil workers
Rada Tilly
Autódromo General San Martín at the end of the runway of Comodoro Rivadavia flying club
Gen Enrique Mosconi Intl
Serving Comodoro Rivadavia in the Patagonian province of Chubut
Escalante Department, there are a lot of oil wells around here
Rio Del Valle Hermoso
Lago Colhue Huapi
Landing in Sarmiento, Colonia Sarmiento Airport ahead
Lago Musters
And back over Lago Colhue Huapi
Lake Musters and Lake Colhue Huapi
In case you didn’t have Fallout 3 vibes yet
Sarmiento Department
Escalante Department, the lake is completely dry on google maps
Paso de Indios Department
More dry, unnamed rivers
Mártires Department
Las Plumas along the Rio Chubut in the valle de los Mártires
Further along Mártires Department
Dique Florentino Ameghino holding back Embalse Florentino Ameghino filled by the Rio Chubut
Villa Dique Florentino Ameghino located next to the Florentino Ameghino Dam
The Sword of Damocles comes to mind
Embalse Florentino Ameghino
Circuito Automovilistico Dolavon
Along the shore of the Valdes Peninsula on the Argentine Sea
Road 47 along the coast
Golfo San Matias along Biedma Department
Aeródromo Bahia Dorada ahead, finally one that’s easy to spot
Playas Doradas
Balneario Playas Doradas
Islote Lobos National Park
This needs water masks asap!
Las Grutas, a busy Argentinean resort town on the Gulf of San Matias in northern Patagonia
Home to long beaches, backed by cliffs pocked with caves
Good place to end today’s leg. Time flies. Heading up further towards Buenos Aires tomorrow, more of Argentina to discover.