Qualla: Valdés Peninsula https://qualla.com/valdes-peninsula en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Valdés Peninsula https://qualla.com/valdes-peninsula Valdés Peninsula: Introduction https://qualla.com/valdes-peninsula/ An orca does something here that orcas do almost nowhere else on the planet: it deliberately runs aground. Riding a surge of surf onto a steep gravel beach at Punta Norte, the animal snatches a sea lion pup from the shallows, then thrashes its way back into deep water before the next wave abandons it. The hunt is over in seconds. It is one of the most extraordinary predatory behaviors ever filmed, and the Valdés Peninsula, a blunt fist of land jutting into the South Atlantic from the coast of Chubut, is the stage where it plays out each autumn.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/8/6/w/valdes-peninsula-wk/686w-vald-s-peninsula-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Valdés Peninsula: A Hook of Land in the Southern Sea https://qualla.com/valdes-peninsula/ The peninsula hangs off the Patagonian mainland by the thinnest of threads, a narrow isthmus barely wide enough for a road, enclosing two great gulfs of calm water. At 3,625 square kilometers, it is mostly flat steppe scoured by wind, knee-high scrub and salt flats that drop belo...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/8/6/w/valdes-peninsula-wk/686w-vald-s-peninsula-the-whales-of-golfo-nuevo.mp3 0:06 3 full Valdés Peninsula: Beachmasters and Stranding Hunters https://qualla.com/valdes-peninsula/ The peninsula's shoreline is crowded with life that has nowhere safer to be. Southern elephant seals haul out along Caleta Valdés, the bulls bellowing through inflated noses as they guard harems of dozens. Sea lion colonies pack the rookeries, and it is their pups that draw the o...

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