Category Archives: South America

Africa, China, Japan, Snapshots from a Happy Life, South America

Postcards from a different time

November 19, 2020 XingfuMama 6 Comments

A time when we could be out and about.

I tried out some of the suggestions in Sandy’s post. This is using the media plus text block.

King Penguins

Volunteer Point

Falkland Islands

These are from messing about in Canva:

Happy memories to all.

For the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Postcards from the Past.

South America

Creative reuse

April 4, 2020 XingfuMama 1 Comment

These old cranes decorated the Puerto Madero area in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My dad, an old crane engineer was thrilled to see them and kept saying what a good idea it was…and talking about how expensive it had been for the Port of Seattle to get rid of it’s cranes of the same vintage.

For Mind Over Memory’s Sculpture Saturday.

South America

Local guy chilling in a doorway

January 11, 2020 XingfuMama 6 Comments

Side view of a sculpture of a man holding a cup of yerba mate and looking out from a doorway in La Boca district of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I came across this charming local guy with his cup of Yerba Mate, watching all the tourists as they go into the La Boca neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We were there in January of 2017. Doesn’t seem like three years should go by so quickly.

For Mind Over Memory’s Sculpture Saturday.

Snapshots from a Happy Life, South America

Iconic coastline

October 23, 2019 XingfuMama 7 Comments

For Becky of Winchester’s Lines & Squares-day 23

South America

Another line of clouds

October 21, 2019 XingfuMama 1 Comment

These cloud lines, a horizon, and a fence line, were in Patagonia.

For Becky of Winchester’s Lines & Squares-Day 21

South America

Fishing lines

October 14, 2019 XingfuMama 5 Comments

I took this picture on a pier in Punte del Este Uruguay where the local fishing boats were moored.

For Becky of Winchester’s Lines & Squares-day 14

Snapshots from a Happy Life, South America

Black and white Penguins, with a goose on the side

October 6, 2019 XingfuMama 7 Comments

Black and white photo of a Magellanic Penguin, taken on the Peninsula Valdes in Argentina. — Magellanic Penguin

Black and white photo of a Gentoo Penguin, taken at Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands. — Gentoo Penguin

King Penguin coddling an egg. — King Penguins are so handsome it’s hard to choose just one picture.

Black and white photo of a King Penguin crowing, at Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands. — King Penguins are so handsome it’s hard to choose just one picture.

Black and white upland goose in black and white. Taken at Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands. — Upland goose: geese don’t seem as fun and special as penguins, but this one looks handsome in black and white.

Side views of a few South Atlantic Seabirds for Cee’s Black and White Challenge: the side of things.

Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life, South America

The Uttermost Part of the Earth

February 6, 2019 XingfuMama 3 Comments

These roads are the southernmost end of the Pan-America Highway (Between Harberton and Ushuaia on Tierra del Fuego). While the gravel roads are not technically part of the Highway they connect to it.

Out buildings of Estancia Habrerton and the start of the Pan American Highway with the mountains of Tierra del Fuego in the background.

Flag tree: a beech tree growing sideways because of the wind.

Smooth blacktop road beside red peat bogs that curves away between Tierra del Fuego Mountains.

For Son of a Beach’s Which Way Photo Challenge

Penguins, Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life, South America, Uncategorized

Penguins in the seafoam

August 29, 2018 XingfuMama 2 Comments

I think the South Atlantic in these pictures shows a wide variety of the colors in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week: Teal, Aqua, Seafoam, Turquoise. These pictures were taken at the Volunteer Point Wildlife Refuge in the Falkland Islands.

Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life, South America

The Uttermost Part of the Earth

July 21, 2018 XingfuMama 1 Comment

Whale bones.

Old truck.

Whale bones.

Mural with skeletons of sealife.

Mural with porpoise skeleton.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week brought to mind my very brief visit to Harberton on Tierra del Fuego.

Worthy of note: the skeletons are from animals that died and were washed up. This was a pretty cool little natural history museum put together by the family that lived in Harberton. I really liked how they showed the animals in context.