Barry and I are in Rio Grande, searching high and low for ‘tortilla wraps’ or some sort of flat bread to take for our lunches! We think we have everything else we need, and we’re meeting the Argentine Prefectura at 10am to have a kit inspection. If we pass, and our documents are in order then we are free to paddle.

Monica will kindly take us about 15 miles south to where we finished kayaking last year and we’ll check out the weather and decide whether to get on the water this afternoon…. if all goes according to plan!

Karel Visel will send us daily weather forecasts to our Iridium satellite phone. We’ll be sending back short daily updates which my mum will put on my blog. We can also send updates to twitter via the satellite phone so may send a few extra messages this way. Follow us on twitter, check out the latest twitter messages on our home page, or follow on Facebook (as twitter messages automatically go to Facebook, and vice versa). We have a map which will be updated live as we paddle. the link to the map is at the top of the blog. Thanks to Matthew at Track Leaders for putting the great map together.