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Pos: 28.2427,-114.0933 Loc: Laguna Manuela Acc: tent Hilleberg Keron 4 weatherbound day 2 We used our second way too windy day for some useful jobs. In the morning, I was sewing a bunch of stuff while Fylkir started to scrape off the Flex tape from the seam of our kayaks. Flex tape is a useful […]

Pos: 28.2427,-114.0933 Loc: Laguna Manuela Acc: tent Hilleberg Keron 4 A long night’s sleep recovered us finally from the 9-hrs jet lag. All morning, we did office jobs, while the seas and wind were raising. We had a visit from a group of students from the Rotary club at our tent, who were keen to […]

Pos: 28.2427,-114.0933 Loc: Laguna Manuela Acc: tent Hilleberg Keron 4 Dist: 30,0 km Start: 07:15 End: 11:35 We woke early at three am with sore bodies allover, still in the jetlag mode. But we kept ourselves busy early in the morning! 😉 It was time to pack at 5 am, still in darkness, as we […]

Pos: 28.4624,-114.0453 Loc: Bahia Sebastian Vizcaino Acc: tent Hilleberg Keron 4 Dist: 30,3 km Start: 07:15 End: 12:45 Finally – we are on the water!!! We had separate flights, as mine was already booked as a return flight back from Mexico, and Fylkir couldn’t get on this one for a reasonable price. It was the […]

Now as we were done for this section, it was a pleasure to get off the beach, to sign into a small hostel, and to shower us the same evening, and all our gear the next day. w did laundry, washed our kayaks and tents, and rinsed about everything under the shower. We were asking […]

Pos: 28.6666,-114.2386 Loc: Santa Rosaliita Acc: Jessy’s Hostel Dist: 30,0 km Start: 06:20 End: 12:45 Fortunately, the forecast for today looked doable, winds up to 17 knots from ne to nw, rising and falling again. But first, it was dead calm, and we happily paddled along. Sure, the wind came…it started to blow just when […]

Pos: 28.8128,-114.3766 Loc: El Marron Acc: Hilleberg Allak tent Dist: 49,5 km Start: 06:00 End: 15:50 We heard some vague hint of large swells again on Wednesday from our two young American neighbor campers, and when I was asking Karel for the outlook, he confirmed. So we urgently need to be in Santa Rosalita by […]

Pos: 29.1132,-114.6769 Loc: Bahia Sebastian Vizcaino Acc: Hilleberg Allak tent Dist: 25,0 km Start: 07:05 End: 11:45 We were so ready to go again after three lazy rest days on a beach! Karel’s forecast was still 1,50 m seas, but low winds in the morning with 3-8 knots nw, gusts up to 14 knots, in […]

Pos: 29.2407,-114.8330 Loc: Playa Cuchillo Acc: Hilleberg Allak tent no paddling today Finally, the strong wind came. Up to 30 knots today, very rough and high seas. Day three of our rest days on the beach. Hopefully the last? We are ready to go again! But it has to calm down quite a lot ove […]

Pos: 29.2407,-114.8330 Loc: Playa Cuchillo Acc: Hilleberg Allak tent no paddling today Forecasted were gusts up to 25 knots, but winds stayed calm in the morning, in the afternoon under 15 knots. But the seas went clearly up, some nasty swells were breaking on the cliffs. Our bay stayed more or less calm-ish. I did […]