The snow from yesterday had stopped during the night and the sun was out when we were having breakfast. It was another typical Argentinian breakfast of bread and cakes. We did get some cereal and yoghurt as well, so not too bad.

We had decided to take a walk in Parque Nacional los Arrayanes, on the 12km long Quetrihue peninsula on the lake Nahuelhuapi. The entrance to the park was 3km south of the town centre so we took a local bus from the terminal at 10am to Puerto. It went round the houses, so to speak, but it didn't take too long to reach the port. We picked up a pizzetta from a small kiosk for lunch and bought a ticket for the catamaran to bring us back from the far end of the peninsula at 4pm, after our walk.

Either side of the peninsula has a bay, Bahia Mansa and Bahia Brava, with amazing color of water. The water was incredibly clear and deep, and if it wasn't for the surrounding snow capped mountains it could be mistaken for the Caribbean.

We paid our AR$ 80 entrance fee for the national park and started walking up the steep track. Fortunately it was only the first kilometer of the track that was steep, the rest of the walk was easy with just slight uphills and downhills on a soft, wide path.

There were a couple of miradores near the start of the track, above Bahia Mansa, giving amazing views of the lake, both of the bays, the isthmus and the snow capped mountains surrounding the lake Nahuelhuapi.

There was a sign at the park entrance that dogs were not allowed to be in the park, but a quiltro (street dog) was waiting near the first mirador and started to walk with us. As we continued to walk along the track, the type of trees and bushes kept changing. The dog was still with us an hour later so we thought we should give him a name and Don Pedro seemed appropriate.

We stopped for lunch at the 7km mark where a few logs had been placed in small clearing looking liking a rudimentary picnic table. Don Pedro was a little ahead of us, but came running back when he realised we were stopping for lunch. He sat very patiently watching us eat our pizza until David broke off a piece of his and threw it to him, he seemed to scoff it down immediately so David threw him another. This time however, the dog turned his nose up at the food and only then did David realise he hadn't actually eaten the first piece either. Annoyed at wasting his lunch, David threw the scraps into the surrounding bushes, away from the picnic table. Don Pedro then jumped into the bushes after the pizza but instead of eating it, he buried each piece in a different place.

As we carried on further along the track the trees continued to change, it was like having multiple forests side by side. We were now in section of forest full of the tallest and straightest trees imaginable. They were so tightly packed, it was hard to believe that each of them was over 40m tall. We took a little side trip to Laguna Patagua at Km11, it was a lake inside peninsula on a lake. After the side trip we entered the Arrayan forest. These trees are of the myrtle family with a weird orange coloured bark.

After 3.5 hours and 13km later, we reached the end of the peninsula and walked out to a little island on the lake. Don Pedro, who left us a couple kilometers from the end of the track, joined us again. Perhaps it was because he knew we would be going to the cafe and he might get a scrap of a cake. He was out of luck though, we only had a coffee. Another dog was waiting at the cafe too. It had the most piercing blue eyes like a husky, but was more wolfish.

We were going to join the 3pm guided tour included in the catamaran ride, but we saw it coming and it was packed with people so we decided we would be better off doing the walk by ourselves instead of in a noisy crowd. It was only a short loop path through the bosque de los arrayanes.

The Patagonia Argentina catamaran departed at 4pm and sailed back on the southern side of the peninsula to Bahia Brava, arriving at 5pm. Instead of waiting 45 minutes for the bus, we walked the 3km back to town. It started to rain a little bit on the way, but we had to consider ourselves lucky to have had such a good day given it was snowing yesterday.