Filtered by category "SA Sec 1 Stg 5 Chile 2"

Sat 25/02-2012 Day 180

Pos: here Loc: Puerto Eden Acc: tent Dist: 31,7 km Start: 7:35 End: 13:40 Another sunny, windless day – I’m getting so spoiled! But today it was only 30 km to Puerto Eden, where I urgently had to stop and to shop a bit and to recharge my batteries. The paddle up to the small […]
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Fri 24/02-2012 Day 179

Pos: here Loc: Isla Wellington Acc: tent Dist: 57,6 km Start: 7:20 End: 18:40 I had frost again on my tent this morning, and I was just about warm enough in my sleeping bag, with my usual bandana scarf around my ears (for the extra warmth) and eyes (for the missing “curtains”). But frost meant […]
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Thu 23/02-2012 Day 178

Pos: here Loc: Isla Wellington Caleta Refugio Acc: tent Dist: 51,2 km Start: 7:10 End: 17:00 I had a great night’s sleep! Long, almost undisturbed (I still felt I needed to look outside at 2 am how the water level was, and for sure the sand flies came in…), with a tad bit of light […]
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Wed 22/02-2012 Day 177

Pos: here Loc: an ancient landing bay with piles of empty mussel shells in So. Tres Cerros Acc: tent Dist: 34,5 km Start: 7:40 End: 15:00 I was hoping to find an early rest last night, after the evening breeze already calmed fully down at 7.30 pm. I had my dinner, potato mash soup – […]
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Tue 21/02-2012 Day 176

Pos: here Loc: Isla Chatham Acc: tent Dist: 57 km Start: 7:40 End: 17:05 I took quite some time yesterday to check in the big inlet for the best campsite on the plenty of grassy areas – there are some with bushes grown in between, which certainly stay dry on high tide. But the grass […]
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Mon 20/02-2012 Day 175

Pos: here Loc: a beautiful deep inlet! Acc: tent Dist: 57,9 km Start: 7:00 End: 18:00 I had a peaceful night – no water noise apart from a few light raindrops, no wind noise, sleeping on a horizontal, soft bed on thick grass. And I fell asleep at 9.30 pm, waking now at 6 am, […]
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Sun 19/02-2012 Day 174

Pos: here Loc: Isla Vancouver Acc: tent Dist: 50,6 km Start: 7:20 End: 18:15 I’m back on track in the main channel! Thank goodness, the odyssey has an end, though with a heavy detour…and thank goodness the weather was so easy… Last night was no really good sleep, as my “perfect” camp high on the […]
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Sat 18/02-2012 Day 173

Pos: here Loc: Isla Rennel Acc: tent Dist: 61,3 km Start: 7:20 End: 18:35 The water reached up to my outer tent pole of my vestibule, but me and my gear inside the tent stayed dry. I fell asleep only at 0.30 am, as I landed late, wrote the long update and couldn’t really fall […]
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Lost in the maze…

hmmm…seems like the clearly marked on all charts connection channel between the two Islas Rennel does not exist…I have to paddle north around Cabo Dispatch and Isla Piazza before hitting the main channel again. Sorry Juerg!
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Fri 17/02-2012 Day 172

Pos: here Loc: Isla Rennel Acc: tent Dist: 68,1 km Start: 7:20 End: 21:00 The story of a Fjordland odyssee…FUCK! I first paddled into a wrong channel, as my Garmin GPS Blue Chart fucked up, and then paddled into a 13 km long, wide, but fully uncharted channel into a dead end.30 km paddling for […]
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