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Highlights: An absolutely solo beach to camp!
Lowlights: Too strong wind again in the afternoon
Launch: Sheltered beach
Landing: Sheltered beach
Pos: here
Loc: before Itaipava
Acc: tent
Dist: 42,6 km
Start: 6:00 End: 13:35

My tent stayed just about dry again at high tide at 4 am,no fisher men allowed here at this beach and my night was quiet besides the howling wind.

The paddle started nicely with a passage through an island gap,where I had my usual oat breakfast on the water while getting pushed along. It’s all about efficiency -why wasting time on land with eating breakfast when you can get pushed along nicely with the following wind for about a kilometer? 🙂

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Many beautiful bays again with plenty of lovely camp sites, but I can’t take them all!At some small harbor with some channel markers I was wondering why five fishing boats were anchoring and fishing just in between the first pair of channel markers, as there was a huge ship on the jetty looking like it was ready to leave soon? On some barren granite rocky offshore island, five fisher men were holding their rods into the water without me seeing any landing spot nor boat? All very strange…

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The morning wind was strong, but less than yesterday, and around lunch, surely when I was just half on the crossing of the last large wide bay, the wind got a tad bit too strong for my taste again.I just don’t like being washed over with breakers from the back deck mutating to a submarine at times.In a light weight boat, I’d have surfed along like hell…but with my 80-100 kg barge under my butt I had to kind of paddle stop and go when the following wind waves either lift me or bury me. Time to find a sheltered landing bay!My mark was on a wider bay, in the wind direction again, fortunately it was kind of divided in the left corner with some rocks into two tiny extra bays, where I could take the first one. An absolutely small dry spot for my tent under a thorn bush with sea shells had to do the job. I carefully trampled the spot for thorns and buried the shells with loose sand as good as possible, patted the ground again inside my tent and spread my gear bags and a towel under the inflatable mattress to avoid a possible puncture – which I had already on some other similar camp site.
Again a long afternoon, but paddling is really no good in this 25 knots following wind!