Pos: here
Loc: Playa Culebras
Acc: tent
Dist: 60 km
Start: 6:20 End: 17:15

Tomorrow:
Estimated landing: Puerto Casma or a beach before
Estimated starting time: Right after sunrise
Estimated landing time: Well before sunset

A big truck with a fishing boat loaded on the back plus about 10-12 men, all looking very scary with woolen face masks on against the cold on the open back, was heading up to our beach at dawn. They wanted to launch the boat – just down the beach, where we should also have landed yesterday. At least this morning we opted to carry boats and gear about 100 m further which paied off eventually. We both were launching dry with some care. The waves had a speedy frequency here, all in all a very strange beach.

The fishing boat obviously only went out to hook a long rope to a buy offshore, and then the men did the same style of fishing we already saw once. They will attach a net on the long line and fan the rope along the beach. here, they may even use the truck to drag it though the water! We didn’t stay for watching, just guessing.

But once they had launched their boat and we were still packing, some of them came up to us, shook my hand and said they had seen us before in another bay. Fishermen all have high respect for what I’m doing – I’m never worried about those guys doing anything bad to me, even when I’d be by myself again.

The paddle itself was first along some long high high cliffs which created quite some choppy backwash. It is actually just funny and generates some strong paddling in my back! Then the landscape changed again to the mellow colorful desert sand dunes of all sizes, which are looking just beautiful.

Puerto Culebra was a small rocky port full of boats – we didn’t see any reason nor space to squeeze ourselves in there somewhere. Not to talk a bout a landing or even camping beach in this bay…but just around a small headland was a beautiful sandy beach, which looked dead calm to land!

Sure, I was sensing it can’t be dead calm…the dumper on a moderate steep beach you can see only coming very close. But rather such a slow dumper than the nasty distant quick rollers from yesterday! I landed all right, but just had a bit of a problem to get out of my boat quick enough, and the next dumper washed my kayak up the beach without me being able to grab it. But it was not too violent, and it stayed upright. It was just filled half with sandy water :-((