Pos: here
Loc: Golfo San José
Acc: tent
Dist: 0 km

No paddling today – a welcome weather break day. It was raining already since yesterday afternoon, I had to put up my tent in the rain, and it kept on raining until this afternoon – with more or less intensity. Plus an about 20 kn east wind, which added to the cozy feeling inside my dry and warm sleeping bag…

I  really slept in until 10.30am! I needed to catch up with some rest, that’s for sure.     Felt good!

The day was spent with two short walks, in the morning I went in very light rain a bit north along the well used track to the lighthouse (good there was no one on the track today…), spotting several dry bone piles of different animals. I was always wondering which species was dying here…and why…and a “dead” old tractor was rotting along the way as well. An old well pool full of sand may be the reason for a probably abandoned attempt at farming.

In the afternoon, on a dry hour of the day, after I spread out my dry suit on a bush to make it match it’s name again, I went west along the cliffs on eventually very low tide. It displayed a most beautiful rocky reef landscape besides the cliffs which was really impressive! Not a single fat blubber roll to be spotted on that very low tide – they are all “gone fishin’ ”  in deeper waters during the day! See if I’ll be getting some noisy groaning neighbors this night again…

Regarding the tides here in the bay – though currently having no tide table my common sense and eye view told me there must be again a bay-typical diurnal tide system – why this nature effect happens I can’t tell at all. I thought already on my morning walk this must be low tide now – and in the afternoon there was almost no water in the bay any more! Ok…I could at least see the other shores now on a bit of a more lighter and dry hour of the day.

And I could spot my first whales again! Yesterday right before I paddled into the entrance, I spotted actually my first two since almost two weeks now! I’m looking forward to seeing more, paddling through the bays.

I obviously updated my blog, and could read my e-mails on my cell phone from a high dune! Getting close to civilization soon again…

Tomorrow I hope the wind goes down a bit and turns to the NE like forecast again, so that I can cut across the northern bay to a take out spot toward the southern bay.

Again Alejandro, my helpful local organizer, contacted some people to help me over the 7 km wide gap! Thanks, Ale! Hope the date will work out around lunchtime! You may contact Alejandro if you may be able to help in a different way on hauling me, my kayak and gear over.

It may look like two more days off then, until I finally can keep on paddling south, but we’ll see!