It’s 6.10pm and we are camped amongst rows of mostly Poplars. It’s another dusty, sprawling campsite with the most basic facilities, that exceeds even the El Chaltan site for expense. 45,000p!! You could nearly get a hotel room in Rotorua for that! But, it’s the height of the summer holiday…
There’s something about the number of miles we have done in the last four days. Two days with exactly the same number of miles and they all add to 1000 miles. No wonder we are both tired. I had to pull off the road this afternoon for a 15min snooze…
Before departing the camp this morning I had to put a couple more wire stitches in the drivers side front mudflap. It was hanging on the former two stitches. Also, after all the dusty driving of the last few days, changed the air filter element. I’ll wash the dirty one…
There must be a mouse in our fridge. As soon as we buy food, it’s gone!! Off to the supermarket again. There’s something else we need to buy too. A tyre pressure gauge. I must have put it down by a wheel after taking the dust cap off and not…
Waking at 9am this morning to sunshine, Jen said, “let’s stay here another day”. There were no complaints from me. There are things I need to attend to on Poki and Jen wants to do some washing. Work on Poki. On arrival at the camp yesterday afternoon, when climbing onto…
There were serious black clouds gathering in the north east and it looked like we would be in for a serious dousing during the night. The Caranex was prepared before going to bed at 10.30pm. still quite light. There was a frenzy of activity last night to get the blog…
Last night’s camp on the beach was brilliant. The wind dropped during the night and it was calm in the morning too. A great sleep in our own bed. As Jen said yesterday, today our destination is Puerto Natales. We are going to stay in Chile to visit the scenic…
By Jen Disembarkation We were up before 07.00 as we had to vacate our state room by 08.00. Leaving our luggage at reception, we went and had breakfast. Tomorrow we will be back to porridge! After saying goodbye to the crew we walked down the gangway, along the pier and…
The final sailing day. It was another early rise for us. We were informed at last night’s briefing, that we would be passing Cape Horn at approximately 7am. The alarm went off and neither of us had had much sleep, but you don’t get too many opportunities to pass Cape…
(By Jen) Crossing the Drake passage As Dennis mentioned yesterday, the weather for our crossing of the Drake Passage was predicted to be quite rough. We actually left the South Shetland Islands early in the afternoon to avoid the incoming bad weather. Overnight it was bumpy, but we survived. The…