Stay on the Beach
Trip Start
Oct 23, 2006
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Trip End
Apr 15, 2009
The Beach, at Pigafetta, Argentina
Thursday, January 17, 2008
One day while touring around the beaches looking for our ideal spot for a couple of nights away from the noise pollution of the busy campgrounds due to summer holiday time for locals, we found ourselves in soft sand and gravel. No one around, just us, stuck on the beach and the more we tried to get out the more stuck we got. Strenuous work, of repeated digging, jacking and stuffing the ruts with rocks and small shrubs resulted in the vehicle moving a few inches at a time. The she half of the team went for a walk down the beach and returned dragging two large pieces of corrugated tin to be used as sand rails, since we don't have real ones, which for some reason just never came to be in our possession and always there in the back of our minds, never became a purchase item. A few more times of digging and jacking and moving feet instead of inches, the he of the team skillfully drove, sand spewing from Eve's back wheels, almost flying, out to the safe trail. Just then a couple of fisherman drove up, parked, greeted us and went about their business. We went about ours, looking for a camp spot and we did, a lovely secluded spot beside a huge rock for shelter. We just got settled when another over lander bounced down the trail, friends whom we were with in Ushuaia and months earlier.
A nice ending to an exhausting afternoon and the discovery that Eve is a two wheel drive, not the one wheel which we thought.
We have not had opportunity to test our skills of late and we are happy to know we are still resourceful, skillful and independent.
