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This picture-show video brings back a few memories of some of the toughest b'stards on the planet (take a look at their knives - they carry them everywhere, even sleep with them)! Lovely fellas, though, even the one who lived alone in a remote caravan on a super-remote ranch in Tierra del Fuego, an encampment that an American fishing buddy of mine, Tom, called Genghiz Khan's Camp, for it being literally surrounded by horse and cattle skulls (including a good number used for seating around the resident's campfire and asado (barbecue) pit) and the numerous skins of sheep, cattle and guanacos (wild llama) drying on stakes and fencelines. He showed us how he skinned a calf; it took him only a minute or so. Fantastic old fella who lived away from the rest of his fellow gauchos on the ranch after a killing a couple of them in knife fights in wine and over women or his long-lost mother's honour over the years. Great people; the Chilean and the Uruguayan equivalents are the same: men who, as a lady friend of mine who met a good number of them with me said, would defend you with their lives.
Fly Fishing | Blog | Photos | Podcasts | Travel | Gear | and More - Moldy Chum - Bryan Gregson Photography | 2013 Patagonia, Argentina |�Gaucho
Fly Fishing | Blog | Photos | Podcasts | Travel | Gear | and More - Moldy Chum - Bryan Gregson Photography | 2013 Patagonia, Argentina |�Gaucho