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Pos: here Loc: Golfo Elefantes Acc: tent Dist: 40,3 km Start: 8:30 End: 16:00 The night was noisy from constant rain, heavily lapping wind waves on the shore and from occasional lound sounds of crashing icebergs or calving from the glacier tongue. They sometimes sounded like shots! I felt soon I had  to use my […]

  Please have a look at my Picasa picture site There are 35 more pictures of the portage day which I don’t want to insert here all seperately.   Pos: here Loc: Laguna San Rafael Acc: tent Dist: 6,6 km (5 x 1,32 km portage) Start: 10:00 End: 15:00 Never again…what a stupid way to […]

Pos: here Loc: on the portage between Laguna San Rafael and Rio Negro Acc: tent Dist: 42,4 km Start: 8:30 End: 20:15 A wonderful morning at the sea! Calm, dry, sandy…but the fine sand will stick everywhere for a while. I’m really some one who loves to keep the gear and tent sand free, but […]

Pos: here Loc: Isla Del Diabolo Acc: tent Dist: 57,6 km Start: 8:30 End: 20:05 I slept perfectly again! Last night was already a treat, long and sound after the horrible night on the fish box! There is nothing like sleep with no safety worries, horizontal and (almost) noiseless. All was dry this morning, nice […]

Pos: here Loc: Puerto San Salvador Acc: tent Dist: 41,9 km Start: 8:15 End: 17:15 What a perfect sea kayaking day! I woke to a dead calm morning, just some humidity on my tent made stuffing it into the bag ugly again. But watching the six dolphins playing while doing the pack job made it […]

Pos: here Loc: Caleta Machado Acc: tent Dist: 23,5 km Start: 9:25 End: 14:45 The night was worth nothing, sleeping high in the tent on a plastic fish box and two big plastic canisters was somehow *not* the high end bed…my head was mostly hit by the tent wall flapping in the wind, somehow the originally horizontal platform shifted […]

Pos: here Loc: Estero Policarpo Acc: tent Dist:31,4 km Start: 10:10 End: 17:35 Ha, what a ride! Nothing for beginners…but I made a basic navigation mistake…being a “safety conscious” girl I crossed shortest way in a direct line to next point on the shore, means paddling first about 13 km due east, then north east […]

Pos: here Loc: Isla San Pedro Acc: Navy Station Dist: 0 km Still no paddling today…and I did right! The morning wind break was smaller than yesterday, rain stopped less often, and the seas were all day covered with white caps. It is blowing heavily again now, and for this night the worst rain of these […]

Pos: here Loc: Isla San Pedro Acc: Navy Station Dist: 0 km It was a tough decision yesterday – to leave this morning or to stay. There was a small wind gap with 12-18 knots north west from 7.30 am with early light to about 11-12 am, but with still a lot of rain and […]

Pos: here Loc: Isla San Pedro Acc: Navy Station Dist: 0 km The same procedure as yesterday…heaviest rain, wind, raging white seas, sleeping, reading, eating…well…I’d rather be eventually kayaking again! Last night brought a bit of distraction – instead of the usual white flour bun with cheese (and plenty of mayonnaise for me) we played […]