Pos: here
Loc: Club Nautico Rada Tilly
Acc: tent
Dist: 62,7 km
Start: 7:00 End: 19:20

I woke to a dead calm, bright sunny morning and was eager to get into my kayak!

I decided, as announced to do yesterday, to cover the missing 20 km in my way, as no one was able to drive me fully back to the spot where I landed on Friday night. I paddled 10 km north and then again back 10 km south to feel to have no gap in the trip, this makes up for the missing 20 km…and I was satisfied with myself.

Still there were 40 km left to paddle to Rada Tilly where I wanted to be back today! The wind was helping eventually, but it was still a very long day, arriving 7.20 pm.
I felt it was very boring for me as well, as I have been driving the same coastline already now 3 times, and I kept myself busy to recognize at least the spots I have seen already from land. I cut across all bays, only wanting to arrive tonight at a decent time after 60 km.

I finally decided to pull out my e-book and read another exciting book all the way long…when the water is calm, I’m not getting sea sick in this way. This is really my rescue item on boring stretches of coast line! And there are a lot on such a trip, for different reasons. Either you are way off shore, or it is really a long beach only with nothing to see in the
hinterland, or as today, you know most of the coast already…I’m just hoping my e-book hold up on my spray deck in it’s Aquapac!

My moving paddle leash is making a perfect screen wiper on every stroke when it’s on the right length and in the right coil…very important, as there are drops falling on the book all the time :-))

So I paddled along, only Cabo san Jorge was a bit interesting, choppy and windy, and I was wondering what the two kids with a bike were doing climbing on the very narrow foot of the highest cliff you can imagine, right before Rada Tilly…this was really not a bike path!

Landing on the shallow wide sandy beach was easy, and I was expected by Alfredo and a friend, probably ready to drive me to a room Solange has organized again, but sorry, this night I arrived so late, and just came from”civilization” and I just had a shower and such things, so camping right on the spot was much easier than loading, unloading, and the same thing again tomorrow morning… I was just dead tired. and needed to sleep.
The night at the camp with the fishermen was already short, in my room in Rada Tilly I was working on line until way after midnight, and last night in my tent I fell asleep only at 10.30 pm either after I finished organizing my food shoppings.

But thanks to Alfredo, Maxi and his wife and Solange and her partner to come out to meet me again and to look after me!
A reporter from the Prefectura was there as well to make a small interview.

I forced myself to cook at last some pasta before I fell asleep, very tired, but ready to paddle tomorrow another 60 km to Caleta Olivia…