Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Monte de Ombues and La Paloma, Uruguay

After Cabo, we went to a went to a national park with a population of the national plant/tree the ombues. Biologists don't know exactly how to classify the plant, because its huge like a tree, but doesn't grow like a tree, it grows like a bush. Anyway, they were pretty cool and along the way there we saw some amazing waterfowl.
After the park, we went to La Paloma which is known for its surfing. Jess and I had tried surfing two years ago in Costa Rica, and he wanted to try it again. He needs more practice!
La Paloma was a very chill beach town, but one thing that was cool was that they had a whale skeleton in the center of town. Here, Flat Tristan (my cousin's flat person who took the trip with us) had his picture taken with the skeleton.

2 comments:

Caitlin said...

Why is flat tristan hiding behind a bush!?!
We also had a flat person with us this spring break....ours didn't get to see any dinos though, he was too busy underwater.

alopezbarton said...

I can tell that Jesse's science nerdiness has rubbed off on you Jenna.