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Month: January 2013

Wet Dwarf Forest

By Tweed Posted on January 29, 2013 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with Chile, guanaco, northofagus, Tierra del Fuego

Today’s photo is not from today but from one of our hikes near Caleta Olla, the guanaco was checking us out from the ridge above. Well as we move west in this part of the world we expect it to …

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Fouque

By Tweed Posted on January 27, 2013 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments Tagged with cake, chaura, Chile, diddle dee, jam, Refleks, Tierra del Fuego, windlass

Saturday morning saw us motoring out of Caleta Olla bound for Estero Fouque; which is a long fjord stretching south from the SW arm of the Beagle Channel deep into Isla Hoste.

Rainy Day, Snowy Summit

By Tweed Posted on January 25, 2013 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment Tagged with Chile, Tierra del Fuego

Wednesday 23rd was rained off. It rained pretty heavily most of the day so we pottered about on the boat, downloaded GPS tracks, sewed holes in gloves, made bread etc.. Marcel from ‘Iorana’ came over and invited us over for …

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Climbing in rubber boots

By Tweed Posted on January 22, 2013 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with Chile, hiking, maintenance, Tierra del Fuego

Some cooker maintenance was the order of the day first thing this morning. The oven is a bit slow and it was time to investigate, we stripped it down and while Steve cleaned years of gunk off the bottom cover …

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High water

By Tweed Posted on January 21, 2013 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments

The Customs Incident So a week ago we left Puerto Williams, did all the paperwork, got the ‘Zarpe’ etc., called port control on the way out – and all seemed OK. After about an hour we got a call telling …

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Caleta Ferrari

By Tweed Posted on January 19, 2013 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

More on the whole story with the customs later. But we left Puerto Williams on Thursday and anchored for the night in Caleta Martinez near Puerto Navarino. Yesterday we had a nice little explore through the small islands on each …

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