A surprising sighting took place on March 13, 2024 (source) when a fishing guide filmed a group of wild boars that were swimming in the lake and approached the boat he was in with some tourists. The video can be seen below.
These boars are not a local species, they were introduced from Europe into Patagonia to stock hunting grounds.
Seen from afar, would someone wonder if it was a lake monster?
I recall a personal experience that took place in February 1971, when my family camped in the forest lose to the Raquitue stream by Lake Huechulafquen in a wild setting. My parents had bought a box with 20 kg of apples in the Río Negro Valley during our 1.600 km (1,000 mi.) trip from Buenos Aires to Lake Huechulafquen. The Valley is packed with apple orchards, and they were the best apples I had tried in my life.
The day after we arrived, in the morning my Dad took the box -which was half empty- down to the lake and rinsed the apples, I asked why, if we had eaten them without washing them. And he told us that during the previous night a group of boars (which is called a "sounder") had intruded on our campsite and eaten most of the apples. Dad heard them grunting and munching apples and woke up, he frightened them away with his flashlight. My mother didn'l kie it at all, she wanted to move to a more civilized spot, so we uplifted our camp and went to an organized campsite at Bahía Cañicul. I was 11 years-old at that time and it was quite an experience!
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