Author Topic: Another trip in South America by forum friends (Read 8620 times)

Maggi Young · « **Reply #15 on:** December 16, 2017, 03:50:59 PM »

Patagonian clouds through bus window

line dancing guanacos

Another trip in South America by forum friends

Oxalis - great colour perhaps O. laciniata

Calceolaria uniflora growing in the grass - with Elisabeth

C. uniflora hybrid

Maggi Young · « **Reply #16 on:** December 16, 2017, 03:53:17 PM »

Leucheria hahnii

oxalis day 28th nov

Oxalis enneaphylla dark pink

oxalis, white

Condor cliffs

Maggi Young · « **Reply #17 on:** December 16, 2017, 03:56:54 PM »

Three of the intrepid 4 who braved the glacial stream incl. Trond and Elisabeth

and the other three!

Bolax hummocks

another Oxalis variation

Meanwhile down at the ranch, Criocho breed horses are enjoying spring

Maggi Young · « **Reply #18 on:** December 16, 2017, 03:59:46 PM »

Our first closeup of a gaucho

Stag River gates

Calceolaria lawn

more calceolaria lawn!

Saxifraga magellanica was present on the east ridge as well

Maggi Young · « **Reply #19 on:** December 16, 2017, 04:03:38 PM »

Oxalis enneaphylla

We have landed. Torres del Paine - the blue towers

A beautiful thing. Gavilea littoralis

Drosera uniflora

The drosera habitat includes Pilgerodendron uviferum the southernmost cypress

Maggi Young · « **Reply #20 on:** December 16, 2017, 04:06:45 PM »

Myrtiolum... "New to me" in the drosera bog

Near the sloth cave - Chloraea magellanica

The clump of Chloraea magellanica

The Sloth Cave - where remains of ancient Giant Sloths were found

caravan

Maggi Young · « **Reply #21 on:** December 16, 2017, 04:13:38 PM »

Saxifraga magellanica massing on the rock

"Saxifraga magellanica, but on some weird diet. Might it be the radiation or the lean composite diet"

Yarn bombs in Puerto Natale

"Waiting and waiting for customs to let us go" 29th nov
Marcela, Elan, Cliff and Anne

Do we look like tourists?

Maggi Young · « **Reply #22 on:** December 16, 2017, 04:16:58 PM »

Ger van den Beuken checking out the grill

Patagonian woodpecker

View

A wonderful composite.

And another daisy- Leucheria

Maggi Young · « **Reply #23 on:** December 16, 2017, 04:17:51 PM »

A 360 degree view after the climb ...

Maggi Young · « **Reply #24 on:** December 16, 2017, 04:24:32 PM »

Guide Carlos, with Elisabeth

deep pink daisy

The cautionary tale- visitors started fires here in the park in 2004 and 2011. Fires are not part of the local ecology. There is no lightning. So now all visitors must have a guide.

Friends getting the shot

Anarthrophyllum desideratum

Maggi Young · « **Reply #25 on:** December 16, 2017, 04:28:18 PM »

Perezia recurvata

? Adesmia salicornioides in the Sierra Baguales

" Torres del Paine with Mulguraea. What a name for such a sweet smelling plant!"

herd of guanaco

The Gang at Torres del Paine ..... looking for all the world as though they are in front of a painted backdrop in a studio!!
Names - from Cliff -
From left to right; Standing:- Cliff Booker; Sue Booker; Tony Reznicek; Mariet van den Beuken; Trond Hoy; Lilian Maksymowicz; Alex Maksymowicz (hidden); Susann Nilsson; Joe Spiegel; Anne Spiegel; Elisabeth Zander; Elena Dobrzhanskaya; Maggie Sharp; John Ingham; Sue Ingham; Terry Laskiwicz; Davie Sharp; Maria Nikonova. Kneeling:- Yakhoub Ebrahimi; Christine EbrahimI; Claire Cockcroft; Ger van den Beuken; Marcela Ferreyra (botanist) and Hector (our driver on stage one).

More SRGC members than you could imagine in that lot!