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19 January, 52.40.07, 68.35.91
A ten hour journey covering 42 nautical miles ended with a surf landing. It is windy now but was calm in the night, so our choice of an ‘early start’ was a good one. We saw dolphins on the way. We are  just south of Cabo Espiritu Santo and feeling tired. Bedtime now!
There are one or two photos of this area on Google Earth. Apart from that I found just one picture on someone’s Flickr page – the fourth one in the collection that anyone can look at by clicking  here.

19 January – just
We’re setting off at 1 am for an overnight paddle across the bay to Punta Catalina. The wind is due to pick up later in the day so we’re taking advantage of the most settled weather with the full moon, wind and tide helping us. Follow us live on the tracking map above!

18 January
Moderate winds against us today so holding out for better conditions. Barry’s wrist is not perfect but a lot better and we’ll move on the next time the weather is good. It’s raining today, it’s noon and we’re still in our tent reading!

We are still here waiting for Barrys wrist to heal and we are both finding the waiting hard today, probably because its another great day for paddling and because Barrys wrist is almost better so we were agonising over whether to make the most of the better weather today, or to wait in case we make it worse by paddling. I am trying not to look at the sea which is flat calm. The current has just turned in our favour and we would just be setting off if allwas well. We are a bix anxious that we will run out of time to kayak around Tierra del Fuego with all the delays we are having but there is no point worrying about what we cant do.

On the positive side, we are getting to know Rodrigo in the Armada who has been very kind, giving Barry ice and giving us tidal and weather information, and we are resting, eating,  and getting strong and fit for when we can paddle.

They have got some impresive technology here, check out those huge binoculars. You can clearly see people on the other side of the narrows through them – although Barrys prefered to use his monocular!

When we do kayak again, we have a 27 nautical mile plus distance to do. We could paddle just 4 miles to the headland on the other side of the Narrows, but once we leave there its a 25 mile crossing to Punta Catalina across a huge bay. Theres a 10 metre tidal range here and the bay dries out up to 5 miles offshore so we cant paddle around the bay, or easily nip ashore if something goes wrong. We will be paddling with the ebb tide so the bay will be getting shallower all the time. If we take too long, the tide will be against us when we arrive…. its one of the most committing paddles that we have on this trip so we want to make sure we are both in good shape when we attempt it. Then again, we also need good weather for it, so it is tempting to take a chance and go today while conditions are good…. but we stayed, which was probably the right decision! I added a couple more photos to earlier entries.

 Thanks to Rodrigo and all the staff at the Armada for their help and hospitality.