It's pretty easy to come to this conclusion: "Patagonia is spiky." Nearly every thing that grows on the arid pampas has spines, thorns, needles or is just downright prickly in some way. The foreground of this picture features the ubiquitous Calafate bush. Legend has it that if you consume the Calafate berries, you are destined to return to Patagonia. I don't know if I needed magic to entice me back. Aside from the inhospitable plant life, I found southern Argentina to be exactly the kind of place you'd want to revisit.