Pos: here
Loc: Ilsa Capitan Aracena
Acc: tent
Dist: 50,1 km
Start: 7:30 End: 18:15

Now Fjordland is becoming the “easy walk in the park” as I was estimating it to be…though walking in a park is on the long run quite boring as well. But no complaints!

It was dead calm water all day, I could feel just some current, amazingly mostly all day against me 🙂 The wind was very low or non-existing, only at night just before I landed it breezed up to maybe 15 knots. Tomorrow is supposed to be very calm again.
It was even almost dry again all day, after I was again so clever to wait in the morning for the rain to stop. And if it rained, it was just a light drizzle. So all easy and good!

The sound of a motorboat coming closer you can hear here in these conditions already an hour before you actually can see the boat. Then it takes another hour to reach you, and another hour to pass, and another hour you still can hear it…at least one old “working horse” fishing boat was like that this moning, it must have been fully loaded with a good catch down south, as it was almost sinking at the stern. Or it was simply leaking…?

Another small yacht passed at noon, but not as noisy, but that tiny last yacht tonight when I was making my camp on a beautiful spot was noisy for hours again. I think they are “sailing boats”…but as soon as the wind isn’t there or right, they start the engine. How sporty…

After all morning with scarce campsites again,in  the afternoon the mountains became less rugged and the less rocky, with more vegetation and probably being also lower. They provide now again plenty of beaches, narrow, but good enough to camp for one tent not getting wet on high tide. Just a bit of levelling  is always necessary, but usually no problem.

I’m camped tonight on a beautiful spot on a ridge between two beaches and bays, the gently splashing water noise now from both sides. Yesterday I had that river noise, and the night before the water fall. Nature is not too bad here!

60 km left to paddle tomorrow to the meeting point with Kiko north of Cabo San Isidro! Pit stop in Punta Arenas then for two or three days. I decided not to paddle two days into and out of Punta Arenas, as it would be a dead end on my circumnavigation. I rather asked Kiko to pick me up as far south he could drive. Thanks, Kiko! It will be nice to eventually meet him, as he already did so much logistic and organization work for me! Muchas gracias!