Pos: here
Loc: Faro Loayza
Acc: tent
Dist: 51,8 km
Start: 7:55 End: 18:35

Looking out of my tent at 5.45 am, I knew I could turn around for at least another hour…I couldn’t get out to sea! This mornings’  low tide was much lower than last nights’ low tide when I was thinking I could get out…so I had to wait…

But my patience didn’t last too long, I rather dragged my kayak diagonally down the gravel beach to a rocky horizontal reef ledge, where dragging the boat out about 50 m was all right for me and the boat. The rock is very soft here, kind of lime stone. So I basically was only a bit more than half an hour later than my usual starting time into again a sunny morning.

Today’s swell was almost non-existing, so any breaker over a reef’s edge was low in height and force. I dared to paddle around high tide inside two longer reefs, which felt all right. No unexpected violent trashing breaker threatening me…

The coastline is still mostly high cliffs , but with every where some kind of a landing beach. Just the camp site you’d have to chose according to the cliffs having a river gap, as there they are generally lower.

At some point around 3p, I just paddled inside a reef again, I dared to land to have a better look…or was I already tempted to call it a day here? Thank goodness just when I landed, a family came out of  their car, which so far had been hidden behind a hill, to enjoy a sunny weekend day…a sign for me this is NOT my campsite…

I climbed a low hill, and realised it was possible to paddle continuously  inside the reef , as it had an exit at the end. After that brief landfall I was motivated again to cover another longer section of cliffs, and I decided to keep on paddling until I minimum covered 50 km, to a spot on my chart marked as “sandy”.

It was eventually already half an hour after full low tide, and 5 km short of my planned spot, I turned inside a new long reef, which still looked like it had just about enough water to paddle. I was traveling along in that way on very shallow knee deep water, carefully checking for rocks just about under the surface, for about 5 more km.

Just behind the lighthouse, which looked like an oversized oil lantern to me, located on top of high lime stone cliffs, I landed on a sandy spot with the usual steep gravel beach at the top end. It had an opening to the sea, which marked as well the end of this long sandy beach inside the reef.

I hope it will be possible to leave tomorrow from here on low tide at 6 am – which is again lower than this night’s low tide! Or I’ll have to start a bit later again…

I’m camping on the highest ledge of the gravel beach, sure the water won’t reach up here tonight. The nights’ high tide is the lower ones of the day. It is again a clear night, with a strong moon shining. But still I don’t see any light from the light house – I think of all light houses I’ve camped close to, there were just a very few really having a *light* at night…