John drove us back
to El Bolson for me to see if my card was in the bank.
The bank was full so
went in with my phone ready to read what I needed to say. The guard
promptly shooed me out as obviously one is not to use one's phone in a
bank!
I called the guard
out to the foyer where the ATM’s are and explained in my poor
Spanish that on Friday I left my card in the machine. He just asked
for my passport and disappeared in behind a locked door. 5 mins
later he came back with my card and a photocopy of card and passport
which I duly signed and left. So much easier than cancelling and
getting another one sent.
I asked the lady in
the Tourist info shop to help me with my phone, she managed to get it
organised with data so John was able to send his emails.
Drove North again. I
must say that today it is more pretty than on Friday when we drove
up. Friday night we had a light dusting of snow on the mountains.
Arrived into San
Carlos De Bariloche which is a ski town. On the drive in there were
lots of shanty towns which surprised us as we had the impression that
this would be a wealthy town.
Parques informed us
that because of the wind all the walks were closed. Well I guess we’d
already seen some of the park over the last few days.
We drove to the base
of the ski tows but no snow yet and then the hunt for a camp. It took
longer than usual tonight but we did see some pretty amazing houses
next to the lake. Just as we had back tracked a little to a possible
camp site a police car drove slowly past with lights flashing did a U-turn and drove away slowly.
We set up camp on
the side of a rode behind a guard rail. Beautiful view of lake Nahuel
Huapi. Forecast -4°C tonight so we got the quilt out and put it on the doona.