Stayed on the Rio Negro in General Rojas, Argentina. The camp was riverside near many other day use spots. Wild horses are throughout the forests and banks here. After this short paddle with Gypsy to find the current much too strong to go upstream out of the eddy, Mike and I did a trip the next morning the other side of the bridge.
Gypsy is a good look out, she loves a paddle.Gypsy and Sarah going for evening float on Rio Negro, Patagonia, Argentina
The morning trip was a put in near golf course-like shores up-river from our camp. We played around in the eddies there then cruised back to camp to pack up and get on the road toward Parque National Laguna Blanca, Patagonia, Argentina.
Mosaics outside the Picicultura TourWe were told about the cascades on Rio Quéquen by new friends Fernando and Julia, in camp ATSA, we met them at the cascades for a tour of the Picicultura (a demonstration of fish hatchery and water filtration system).The tour is all in Spanish, so I understood about 50%. The big takeaway is that all of the work being done to support the fish of Rio Quéquen is for nothing if it doesn’t rain enough and probably mentioned but not understood by me, farming practices.Filtration system for the demonstration hatchery Mike and I decided to come back the next day to paddle board upriver from the cascades. The day after, Viv and I paddled below the cascades..Photos of the port where the Quéquen eventually flows from those inland cascades, the port’s trendy tourist center, shipping container restaurants and amusement park.The Quéquen valley is a large agricultural area serving for export to? Who is trading most with Argentina? We saw many ships going in and out from the beach camp. From Wikipedia: The Quequén Grande River is located in southeastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its mouth flows into the Atlantic Ocean, along the eastern border of the resort city of Necochea. Discovered in 1748 by Jesuit missionaries José Cardiel and Thomas Falkner, they originally named the waterway San José; its eventual name originated from the gününa iajëchKem Kem (“gully”). The port of Quequén, located at the mouth of the river, in the neighboring town of the same name, was established in 1922. The facility handles over 3 million tons of freight annually and is a major rail head for Argentine grain exports. One of only two existing suspension bridges in Argentina, the Hipólito Yrigoyen Bridge (1929), spans the river at Necochea.Sunset back at camp
Butte Family Abroad 