Pos: here
Loc: 8 km north of Cabo San Isidro
Acc: Ricardo + Ely’s house in Punta Arenas
Dist: 0 km

The first thing in the morning was a small boat repair on my seat.

Ricardo drove me at 10 am to the Navy office to receive my paperwork from Punta Arenas Port Captain Lieutenat Commander Pablo Ferrada Orellana. All was easy and friendly going, no problems, thanks! I am now Chilean Navy authorized to paddle now by myself until Puerto Montt. There I’ll see the Navy again for the next leg’s permit.

Around noon, I went food shopping, and after a lovely lunch cooked by Ely in the afternoon was food packing, plus configurating my new computer via Team Viewer with my IT-skilled boyfriend Peter in Denmark.

I’ll drive with Kiko at 7 pm to the spot where I landed on Sunday night, will camp there, and will paddle tomorrow morning again! Tomorrow is reasonable (head) winds, but I like to be on the water early.

Thanks very much to Kiko, Ricardo and Elyi in Punta Arenas helping and hosting me! Without the help of the locals, all things would go much harder and less smoothly. Good to have the connections!