Our plan on Valentine's Day was to head up to Bio Bio's other camp by La Cascada (The Waterfall), at the bank of Rio Azul (Blue River). We each was assigned a horse with saddle and comfortable padding as well as custom-fitting shoe-straps. The day was hot and the roads seemed dustier as we followed closely with each other. We made multiple stops to get cheese, to enjoy the view and to have lunch. The three-hour or so journey reached area that was inaccessible via vehicles. We set up camp fire by the bank of the river, with meat enough to serve a platoon. It was a nice change of venue of what we had done the previous days.

It was quite a challenge to attempt to photograph the journey on a horse back with the rein in one hand and an SLR camera in another. While my horse Caramela was tame, she prefered to stay at the end of the pack, leaving me in the trail of dust at all time. Whenever there was grass or water, she would insist on eating and drinking until the last horse passed her by. Sometimes she would trot at her own will to catch up with her favorite horse in the pack, throwing me off balance, leaving me scrambling to pull the rein hard and readjust - forcing me to leave the camera in its bag most of the time. The following day we all walked around discovering muscles we never knew we had before.