Rescue in Estero Castro
In this week’s blog I was going to write about the Tábanos a huge biting fly, about visiting a church and getting a stainless steel thing made. But instead I’m going to tell you about an incident that happened to …
In this week’s blog I was going to write about the Tábanos a huge biting fly, about visiting a church and getting a stainless steel thing made. But instead I’m going to tell you about an incident that happened to …
Still in Estero Pellu on Isla Apiao, we took a stroll along the coast at low tide to visit the community where we found the usual collection of boats on the beach, some in use some under construction and a …
The church at Metahue, Isla Buta Chauques 42:36.66S 073:13.15W We spent a couple of days in Metahue observing life, chilling and doing chores. We saw the ferry arrive one evening bringing half a dozen people home from their travels and …
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Olga her big brother Victor and the doll that Paula made 42:17.91S 073:08.20W We have had a pleasant time so far in the Islas Chauques. We moved from Mechuque to Estero Voigue shortly after my last posting. This was a …
42:18.78S 073:15.91W Artesanal fisherman returning to Bahia Corral, the boat is called Sin Piedad (No Mercy) The middle of November saw us almost at a stage where we were ready for sea; almost, I’ll write about the final little jobs …
Marina Estancilla 39:50.92S 073:19.01W It’s been a month since I last wrote, and not much achieved. We left Marina Quinched on the 13th of April and navigated our way past many many mussel floats to Estero Tocuihue where we stayed …
A dinghy Marina Quinched 42:34.69S 073:45.36W The highlight of our last night at Jechica was being disturbed by the patter of tiny feet running around the deck just after we went to bed and Paula seeing a little face peeking …
S 44 25’13, W 073 51’60 The breeze that we were waiting for when I left you at the end of the last blog entry never came which meant that we continued on overnight to make our entry into the …
Puerto Eden After a couple of days waiting for weather in Caleta Colibri we got going again on the 16th and entered Canal Concepcion where we made good progress but were thwarted in reaching our intended goal for the day …
When I wrote the last entry we were sitting in Caleta Villarica waiting for better weather to get North in Canal Pitt. On the 10th we thought that the forecast was promising so got under way but after a few …