Turtle Park
Elegant Parque San Martin serves many purposes. Besides picnics and mate sessions, one of the most popular things to do in Mendoza’s lovely municipal park is to go there and dump your unwanted dog. Any jogger in the park will relate the frequent problem of being followed by a four legged stray the whole way home, where it camps out on the front doorstep until the very same jogger relents and adopts it. Now park management have to deal with abandoned turtles in the lake, again the result of people changing their minds regarding keeping a pet. The good news is the authorities have finally announced a clean up of the lake which has not been emptied in a decade and reputedly holds 10,000 truck loads of dirt, several abandoned wine harvest festival floats and a Ford Falcon.
Elegant Parque San Martin serves many purposes. Besides picnics and mate sessions, one of the most popular things to do in Mendoza’s lovely municipal park is to go there and dump your unwanted dog. Any jogger in the park will relate the frequent problem of being followed by a four legged stray the whole way home, where it camps out on the front doorstep until the very same jogger relents and adopts it. Now park management have to deal with abandoned turtles in the lake, again the result of people changing their minds regarding keeping a pet. The good news is the authorities have finally announced a clean up of the lake which has not been emptied in a decade and reputedly holds 10,000 truck loads of dirt, several abandoned wine harvest festival floats and a Ford Falcon.
