Having spent several days driving across the flat plains of Patagonia, the Living Wild team suddenly stumbled across an isolated group of hills, the Lihue Calel National Park, an area known once as ‘land of the devil’ by ancient indigenous tribes.

We initially thought of it as a coffee stop but its tranquil beauty and wealth of wildlife held us for a week.

This gave Paula time to record the natural sounds.  The constant wind required her to use a Rycote windjammer over the Sennheiser mic’, both of which coupled into a Zoom H4n digital recorder.

Two hours walking took us to the top of the hills, capped with a multitude of endemic flowers.  Beneath us stretched the immense plains and here amid the clouds,  our dreams of visiting Patagonia became reality.