Wed 31/10-2012 Day 315

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Better a bit blurry - the landing on the "garbage" harbor of Caleta Puyenca at Punta Atico

Pos: here
Loc: Caleta Puyenca
Acc: tent
Dist: 60,2 km
Start: 5:05 End: 16:54

Tomorrow:
Estimated landing: Puerto Viejo
Estimated starting time: Right after sunrise
Estimated landing time: Well before sunset

The night was quiet, just the bright light from the industrial area shining through the fence made us feel like being in prison…
The surf sounded more nasty than it was, and the launching this morning was just a bit wet for Peter (this beach doesn’t like him!), and dry for me. Maybe I simply don’t like sewage water in my face 🙂

The paddling was slow today, the water surface slightly bumpy, no nice gliding along. The coastline was just high sand dunes or cliffs, with the continuous Panamericana Highway as a long scar in  the otherwise quite virgin dunes or rocks. We were watching match box size trucks for almost the only entertainment.

Our destination was a small caleta before a nature reserve headland, which was marked in my chart with “embarcation” – loading area…there were about ten huge floating pontoons in the entrance of the bay, but it fortunately had apart from vertical harbour walls also a tiny sandy sheltered beach. It didn’t really matter that this was really a rubbish dump, as long as we landed safe.

Why the heck are we paddling all day along most beautiful nature, and at night we have to take the one and only sheltered landing spot again on some yucky industrial place? We are at least looking forward to paddle around this long nature reserve headland. There are two beaches also on the other side, but the first one was right inside the reserve and may be full of seals, and the other one will probably just be the backside of this rubbish dump. Both of them were too late to reach tonight anyway.

At least we are camped high on a concrete platform, away from the sandy rubbish dump, and away from at least two stinky seal carcasses down there. It is windy tonight after a day of sunshine, but the wind fortunately blows the smell just past our tent. It’s nice to shut the tent door and have your own reasonable clean privacy around!

3 comments on “Wed 31/10-2012 Day 315

Udo Beier

Ahoi!

Congratulation Freya for your first 10.000-km-Coastal-Kayak-Tour-Leg around Southamerica.

I have written for the German speaking fans of Freya (& Peter) a short comment about Freya’s great performanc to paddle within 217 paddle-days 10.037 km. The comment is published in the KANU-FORUM of the German Canoe Association (DKV):

http://forum.kanu.de/showpost.php?p=27043&postcount=11

Sorry, if you can’t understrand German!

Best wishes from Hamburg: Udo Beier

Edda Post author

10 thousand miles down, only 24K to go. You’ll be finished before you know it!

Randall Lackey

That does suck, paddling a beautiful shoreline then having to camp above a garbage dump. better luck tommorow, and maybe Peter can land on a beach nice and dry then,Ha.Plug your nose for the night and rest well.Safe Paddling. Randall

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