We made it back to Rio Grande from the Chile / Argentinia border in 3 days. It was pretty good going covering 80 nautical miles in 3 days, and arriving in Rio Grande in time for lunch today!

It feels really good to be on the water again, seeing beautiful places, experiencing so many new things and meeting interesting people. The wind here is almost always strong, and is almost always from the NW or W, or somewhere inbetween. That is why we decided to go clockwise around Tierra del Fuego. While we are on the NE coast with an element of the wind behind us it certainly feels like the right decision. We wouldn´t have made much progress going in the other direction but we were surfing waves at about 5 knots a lot of the time in the last few days. Of course, from Ushuaia to Punta Arenas, the winds will be against us but hopefully we can find a bit more shelter from the wind in the channels, plus the wind is usually not quite as strong there.

There are so many birds here, its amazing. Grebes, terns, shags, petrels, oyster catchers, gulls…. and usually in big colonies. We were lucky to see about 5 penguins at the tip of the big long spit yesterday, and dozens of dolphins (the type that we rescued) jumped out of the water around us over the last 3 days. Today we stopped at a sealion colony south of Cabo Domingo and saw a few dozen huge, scary looking sealions.

We are resting in Rio Grande today and tomorrow. I have updated some of the older blogs with a few photos. Thanks to Marcelo for the photo of us.

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