The plan for today is to make our way back to Port Williams to check out of Chili. Not sure why we do that other than the Chilean rules are a bit weird. To get in we had to have a PCR test before arrival and an antigen test once we arrived.
It will be a pretty long run to the port but if we make good time we may be able to launch the kayaks and paddle the last few miles. Some pictures along the way towards Puerto Williams.
We are making pretty good time so it looks like we’ll have a couple hours to paddle the last few miles to Port Williams. The weather has gotten really nice for a paddle. Lots of blue sky for the first time in many days. This morning it was cold, rain and sleet and socked right in so it was good for transiting via sale boat.
We got to within eight to nine miles of Port Williams and most of us launched kayaks. We had a really interesting paddle. It started out calm with lots of sun then turned into sleet and a moderate wind. About half way the wind dropped and rain stopped so it was nice again for a while. Then it came barreling in. We had seen it to the west of us and also got a heads up on the radio form the boat. A big squall landed on top of us and it was quite gnarly.
We made it around the point, into the harbor and found our boat tied up next to a beautiful $10 million yacht. Quite nice. We raced to gat all kayaks onboard and the did the march around town to all the immigration offices and the harbor master office to get our clearance stuff done.
After a great Argentine dinner by Anita and some brownies by Justine it was time to hit the sack. I took a look outside and found a lot of big wet snowflakes coming down. Really pretty in the harbor with a heavy snowfall.
Our last paddle day was quite adventurous and a great time.
Great pics and story telling of your adventure Scott.