Beautiful sunshine again and it should have meant a good day on the bikes except that Gareth managed to pull his back somehow lifting our teabag supply into the food pannier, really not that heavy a load, we´re not that huge a tea drinkers!.
Anyway after some stretching and resting we managed to get packed and on the bikes.
I had a good cycle day along rolling green landscape, Gareth I think was in a fair amount discomfort with his back, but we had a deadline today to catch the once weekly ferry from Quellon to Chaiten on the Carretera Austral. After retracing our tracks 15km from the campsite we were back on ruta 5 and turned to head south. We met a couple of Italian cyclists at the junction, also heading south to get the ferry from Quellon. We then passed each other a couple of times throughout the day before cycling the final 20km into Quellon together. We´d made good time and after confirming our tickets we had quite a few hours to wait before the ferry scheduled to leave at 12 midnight. Time was spent finding a toilet to wash off some of the cycling dirt and then a picnic in the plaza followed by a few rounds of ¨UNO¨ , which passed the time successfully.
We got to the port for 10pm as requested along with about 10 other cyclists. It then took 2 hours for the ferry to be loaded, all the cars and lorries had to reverse onto the ferry so it was 12.30 before the ferry actually left. Both of us, but Gareth with his sore back especially, were very thankful for the beds that we´d booked at a slightly higher cost for the crossing, they were comfy and the crossing took 8 hours in the end so well worth the money.
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