29th
Jan, Wild camp at junction Tortel road to Wild camp small river (23M)
It certainly knows how to rain over here. I keep wondering how many more days it can
go on. Non-stop all night and to add to our woes we also managed to snap
another tent pole this morning when we tried to push water off the outer. Not
happy campers this morning.
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| Drying out in a kiosko |
We had a
ferry to catch on the next part of the journey so we decided to wait out the
weather for the morning in the hope that it may clear and aim to catch the evening ferry. By midday it had brightened up a bit
so we packed up and continued up and over the small pass in reasonable weather
before a very wet descent to Puerto Yunguay. There are only a few houses at
Puerto Yunguay, but it is also the site of a free government-run ferry that
takes you across the fjord to continue the Carretera Austral southwards to Villa
O’Higgins. It runs 3 times a day most days of the week. We were well within
time for the 6pm ferry and had time join the motorcyclists and other drivers
drying off and warming up in the tiny kiosk that serves hot coffee, cakes and
fritas and usually empanadas. Gareth manged to sort some repairs to our tent
poles whilst in the dry, hopefully they’ll withstand use tonight.
The ferry
ride took about 45mins and was uneventful, but it was nice to continue sitting in the warm.
Once across the fjord we continued on the bikes for about another hour before
finding a suitable camp pitch by a small river. Again we got the tent up just before
the rain restarted in force again.
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