Pos: here
Loc: Puerto Perdido
Acc: tent
Dist: 41,5 km
Start: 6:20 End: 13:45

Tomorrow:
Estimated landing: Puerto Morin
Estimated starting time: Right after sunrise
Estimated landing time: Well before sunset

We were quite happy to get off this public beach, although nothing special happened all night. I must have slept at least deep for five hours, before the noise of the fishing jetty got louder and even my scarf pulled deep into my face couldn’t cover the street lantern light any more which shone brightly on our tent.

On packing, we were noticing a “neighbor” occupying another corner of the beach behind the high wall fencing the beach walk behind which we were also hiding – but this guy had only a thin plastic blanket as a “tent”, and probably not much more under and on top of him. The sand was quite smelly especially close to this wall, but at least our tent made us feel to have a bit privacy and “home”, not to be fully homeless like this poor guy…

A bunch of beach combers were searching for useful things in the flotsam and jetsam the night’s high tide may have flooded ashore. Chances are quite good, despite the tidal difference is a mere meter here, but as the maybe 500 fishing boats of all sizes anchoring just upfront the beach probably don’t carry many garbage bins with them, and the wind goes on shore…

We were “talking” to two of those poor creatures, of which one of them has found a real treasure – a whole oar of a row boat. I think they very much appreciated to be taken notice of, and one guy petted lovingly the bow of my kayak.

Next time we need water we really rather paddle into a big city by day, get the job done while one is watching the kayaks, and paddle off again…here was for example just a lovely small beach lurking this morning right across an island…the sleep quality and quantity will be way better, I think!

We were paddling mostly today along beaches, all of them were looking very much possible to land in the merely a meter high swell today. Good to know!

But we wanted to reach the next “corner” again, Punta Chao, as we like to cut across the bays instead of staying close to the shore. It was only a 40 kilometer day again, but just right after the last night bad sleep.

We took the after noon for doing a long overdue job – changing the zipper sliders of our tent. You can take as much care as you like with keeping the zippers sand free – camping every night on sandy beaches, there is always some sand left, and the sliders simply wear out after latest about three months. It’s a bit of a fiddling job to do this, but with two people and pliers it was working eventually successfully, and we can close all doors again properly.