Sat 04/02-2012 Day 159

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Camp at the inlet at low tide at Bahia Snug, it just about stayed dry

Pos: here
Loc: Bahia Cordes
Acc: tent
Dist: 0 km

As I decided yesterday, this day was a weather rest day. During the night, it started to rain heavily, and strong wind came up. Fortunately, my tent was pitched in a bit of wind shelter, but not in shelter from the rising water!

It was close again, the night’s high tide was surprising…those inlets have an own tide table! Only once a day – always during the night :-), the tide is high, like last night around 1 am. The water reached almost my dry island behind a few bundles of grass. After a few anxious half hours and a walk outside to check the tent lines, I noticed the water won’t come up higher as expected, and went back to sleep.

The regular tide was expected to be high around 8 am and 8 pm, so why this difference in those inlets? No idea. I assume it will be the same the next night again. During the day, I saw the water sinking to make an almost dry inlet, and it is still very low now. Hope I’ll stay dry next night…moving into the higher grassy bushland would be not much fun.

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Hey, don't come close to my tent!

I spent the day with sleeping long, resting my really sore body from the hard work of long hard head wind paddle yesterday. I fixed a few gear pieces, and read and ate a lot. Nothing special. Rain and sunshine was mixed today, and my tent ventilation had to change accordingly. But it was mostly strong wind as per forecast, only in the morning after the night’s storm was it calm for a few hours.

Tomorrow is hopefully still low wind as forecast, and I’ll make good progress again! I can’t have those tent rest days more than one in a row without going crazy…

5 comments on “Sat 04/02-2012 Day 159

Edda

And here in southern UK we had 8 hours of snow, 4 inches came down, and in the morning already it was just slush, not even a chance to dust the sledges off, bah humbug!

Rebecca

Hi Freya, I am doing the Canadian Ski Marathon next weekend and I am using you as my inspiration. When I get tired I will think “Freya would not give up, she would keep pushing”. You are really amazing. I don’t know how you can do so much mileage in one day! And kayaking in whitecap and strong wind just sounds way too scary to me. cheers, Rebecca

Caro

Hallo Freya!. Ich gehe diesen Link. Vielleicht haben Sie bereits. aber hier ist es klar, die Bewegung der Gezeiten in dieser Gegend, die berühmt für Überschwemmungen ist. Es gibt sehr große Flut da draußen. Ich hoffe, Ihnen zu dienen!

http://www.shoa.cl/index.htm

Meike

Wünsche dir für morgen bessere Wetterbedingungen und für die heutige Nacht, kein Hochwasser. Hier in DK ist es sehr kalt aber trocken. Also gutes Gelingen

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