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was the forested Quila. Cane Coligue (Coulou)
offered along the road at the river at Puerto Elgante,
and gradually replaced the Quila above there. Big
Derrera these a magnificent view of Cerro Tronador
from the Chilean border stations at Casa Langua.
Saw no flow-forest on the Chilean side, and
only a few small trees at Puerto Blest.
Dec 8 Went to Isla Victoria on the tourist boat, thence
to Piedras Blancas and Puerto Rodal by jeep.
Had lunch with Abel Basti and Miguel Pellorano
and 2 friends of theirs. Then saw the 19 Pudu,
One of them seemed quite long-legged, but its mother
and father were quite short. Several spotted young.
In one pen were a male, two females, and 1 young. One
of the females lost her fawn, and we saw the
surviving fawn nurse from both females. They
feed them winter branches and pellets (brown
pellets, not alfalfa), at both Piedras Blancas,
where Carlos Caliv, wife & child are to park-guard,
and at Rodal, are large green meadows crops where
dozens of putting green by deer, all 3 species
of introduced deer (Cervus, dama, and axis)
sometimes feed together, and both Basti and
Caliv say that on a typical night at this
season they can see 100 or more deer grazing
within 100m of the cabin. Our jeep driver was
taken on the road; he says to have seen little
change. The forest floor continues to be