Pos: here
Loc: Puerto Foca
Acc: tent
Dist: 69,7 km
Start: 5:55 End: 17:35

Tomorrow:
Estimated landing: Paita
Estimated starting time: 7-8 am
Estimated landing time: around lunchtime

This morning it was me to get a facewash in the low surf – but I learned and backed up after the first one and didn’t keep on trying, but rather waited! 🙂

An easy but long paddling day, with a great current helping us the first half, then it was gone and we had to work harder. Even the regular see breeze wind was moderate in the afternoon.

The seals around here on this end of Peru are real monster size – each of them! But they are all shy and scared as usual…fortunately. If such a massive giant would like to get on you…

I forgot to mention on the day of the paddle back from the island two days ago we twice had a huge school of about hundred hunting dolphins, all smaller size, just like the show we had on the paddle up to the island at night. But I have a bit of doubt if they are really dolphins? Do for example tunas behave similarly, jumping rather criss cross around like crazy in a big mass? Dolphins seem to be jumping more elegantly and smoothly on their way, I think.

Still three penguins to be spotted today, although the water got warmer again. Penguin, go home to Antarctica!!! I rather like a tropical feeling soon, 5 degrees latitude close to the equator!! And turtles floating around already! 🙂

Our destination was the small harbour of Foca. Glad the swell was today even under one meter, as the entrance is very narrow, and it may be even more ugly to enter than it was even today when there would be higher seas!

There was a simple raft with two young guys sitting in the harbor entrance, one was even a kid only. They were surely fishing…we soon saw that those kind of rafts was commonly used here to go out fishing, and the lightweight logs must be growing some where close by. A craft with similar use as the “small horses” reed boats we saw earlier, primitive, but still popular! Still the small harbour was packed with larger fishing boats, but each of them had such a raft on deck instead a “nutshell”!

We made quite the show of the village on landing, but all people were very friendly! Amazing that after unloading nobody seems to be happy to help us with the heavy gear bags, but they are very keen on lifting the kayak up to our campsite on a concrete platform! Boats are men’s things, gear bags women’s? :-))

Tomorrow will be the last paddling day of this section!!! And the last day for Peter on my trip. But he may be back on parts of my third leg! Maybe…