We had an early breakfast because our excursion was scheduled to be a long one taking up the whole day. After eating and getting our bits and pieces ready we disembarked, boarded our coach, then headed off through Puerto Madryn’s streets southwards. Once we’d got outside the city the landscape became very flat, very plain, very sombre-coloured. This region of South America – Patagonia – turned out to be quite depressingly dull and it wasn’t helped by a coach journey that took several hours and ran out of things to say from the tour guide fairly early on; there’s just so much you can mention about the Welsh immigrants and locals and seemingly unchanging landscape. I imagine the night skies from the area looking up to the stars would be utterly fantastic, though.

Our long and snoozy journey was broken up with a rest stop just outside the city of Trelew. I satisfied myself simply with a stretch of the legs and some photos of the bleak surroundings.

With everyone’s bladders emptied and everyone slightly perky once more we reboarded the coach and continued on towards the penguin colony at Punta Tombo. The scenery didn’t pick up and we probably would all have drifted back off to sleep again if it wasn’t for the bumpiness of the road leading to the colony.

A hazard of taking photos from bus windows is that they are prone to colour tint problems, dirt issues, motion blur, and reflections from inside the bus or from windows on the opposite side. The last of these was the issue with the original photo here but this picture makes use of the Camera Raw algorithm for reflection removal and the result works very well. Other than that, just a little bit of sensor dust removal, some noise reduction, and a bit of a boost in colour and brightness finish off the adjustments to the original shot.