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Fri 07/10-2011 Day 39

Pos: here Loc: Inside Golfo San José Acc: tent Dist: 45 km Start: 9:00 End: 18:30 The forecast for that new day was easy – 10-15 kn lovely following NE winds – if you are going SW…which I was up to do. My “chicken way” 🙂 I wanted to get inside Golfo San José, to […]
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Thu 06/10-2011 Day 38

Pos: here Loc: Peninsula Valdez Acc: tent Dist: 75 km Start: 00:00 End: 15:30 I knew the moon would be gone at 3 am, and was a bit dreading those 2 1/2 hrs of more darkness, but the moon disappointed me even more – it started to hide behind clouds already around 1.30 am. Around […]
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Wed 05/10-2011 Day 37

Pos: here Loc: Golfo San Mathías Acc: kayak Dist: 80 km Start: 7:15 End: 24:00 The decision process “to cross or not to cross” was started by me actually quite late – I think somewhere in the middle of the calm Bahia Union I pulled out my GPS and measured the shortest distance to Punta […]
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Tue 04/10-2011 Day 36

Pos: here Loc: Balneario El Condor Acc: Roberto’s beach house Dist: 0 km Slept in a little – never get as good sleep in a strange house than outdoors in my tent. But no complaints! A house has manyh other advantages… I found the local “Super Mercado”, and shopped the basics which were available for […]
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Mon 03/10-2011 Day 35

Pos: here Loc: Balneario El Condor Acc: Roberto’s beach house Dist: 60 km Start: 7:00 End: 15:30 This day was the chance to get away from that windy black beach spot! I noticed the night already was very calm, and when I glanced out of my tent this morning my wind water wheel showed clearly […]
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Sun 02/10-2011 Day 34

Pos: here Loc: still the same… Acc: tent Dist: 0 km Well…the original forecast for today was low south winds under 10 kn…but unfortunately Karel, my reliable Dutch weatherman sitting in Israel, had to “upgrade” the wind to a 15-22 kn sse in the morning and for the afternoon “only” a 10-15 kn sse…and seas […]
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Sat 01/10-2011 Day 33

Pos: here Loc: 3 km before Faro Segunda Barranca Acc: tent Dist: 30 km Start: 7:15 End: 11:15 Yesterday I was happy to be able to buy some fresh veggies and fruit in the small villagae shop – nice strawberries, avocados, sweet corn on the cob. Apples and bananas anyway. Fresh things we mostly have […]
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