Another video of Nahuelito

I came across another video, shot in June 2022, by a person who lives in Bariloche, Río Negro, named Silvina, she lives on the road linking Bariloche with Llao Llao, close to the "km 23" milepost. Silvina, whose home has a fantastic view of the lake, said she saw "something" unusual in the lake close to Isla Victoria.

The video embedded below can be seen here, in Youtube.

2022 Nahuelito video.

As usual, the lake is clam and something appears on its surface. It could be anything, bird, deer, fish, wave, wake, soliton, etc. Not a cryptid.

This map shows the spot of the sighting, and as you can see in the video, it was spotted by an island, which can be seen in the map on the upper right side, just left of Puerto Huemul. This island is called Isla Roble. Remember that there are wild boars and red deer on the Huemul Peninsula right beside the island and the spot where the "creature" was sighted.

Boars and deer have been seen swimming in the lake (see this post and this one too, uploaded earlier this year).

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Boars swimming in Lake Nahuel Huapi

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.

The video is captioned: "Tourists surprised by four wild boars swimming in Lake Nahuel Huapi". Copyright LMNeuquen

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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