Navimag - day 2
Trip Start
Mar 01, 2006
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Trip End
Dec 01, 2007
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Canales Patagonicos,
Chile
Sunday, April 1, 2007
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We woke up in Puerto Eden, a settlement lost in the Patagonians channels, and connected to the rest of the world every two weeks only by our boat (called Puerto Eden too). And by satellite dishes too.
Set on a small island, living mainly from fishing... and the navimag tourists! We paid 6 dollars to disembark, the money goes to the fishermen who carry us from the ship to the jetty, and back.
It was nice to visit, BUT... over 100 tourists disembarked to have a one-hour visit, in a town that counts less than 200 inhabitants! Quite a shock I guess, but everyone wants to see that remote place... I guess it would be better to get off, and wait two weeks or the next boat!
Back on the boat, a group of tonina dolphins arrived, jumping out of the water, attracted to the sound of the engines. They dived under the boat, surfaced on the other side, and started playing in the waves at the front of the boat... then on the sides, as the ship was picking up speed... it was really cool.
I was on deck watching the manoeuvers, not quite understanding why we were taking such a sharp turn left.... when it was followed by a shapr turn right, I realized that we were going to tun back, and went to the bridge to ask how many peple we had forgotten! It was Kath, a Belgian girl, who told us later how she came back from the other side of the island to see the ship leaving the bay, and then how all the fishermen had gone home and she had to find one that calle the boat and took her onboard. Then I had to tell my transiberian story, hohoho.
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Later we came across a shipwreck, the funny story being that it was sunk y its greek captain in order to get the insurance money... but he never managed to really sink the ship! And he got caught because he still unloaded the cargo of sugar and sold it, which would have gone unnotticed if he had not failed to sink the ship!
Then the Chilean navy used the ship as a shooting target, hence there are big holes in the hull
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In the afternoon w reached Golfo de Penas, which is open to the west to the Pacific Ocean.
That was a 12 hours in the ocean swell (a very gentle ocean swell, nothing like the 8 meters that are regularly encountered there), that I spent in my bed, tring not to vomit. I am very prone to seasickness, even with medicine, I know it, there is no cure for that, and there is no getting used to it. But everytime I manage to forget about it when I book a boat trip.
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