13/3/08 11:00 AM

We were off at 9:15 having spent a quiet night apart from possibly one bottle of wine too many. The Smyth Canal is a major waterway and we were caught in the rush hour as two ships passed each other and us in a narrow section. The wind is strong against us but only for 13 miles as we will turn a corner and go SE for 20 or so under sail.

19:00

In the end we sailed for  three hours and eventually arrived at  Estéro de las Montanas, a fiord which is 30 miles long hardly ever more than  1 ½ miles wide.  We had an amazing day to come here, no rain, lots of sun, and very little wind against us.  We are half way up and tucked into a very sheltered little corner with one anchor and two stern lines.  It’s had to appreciate the scale of this place, many of the mountains are probably 2500 meters high.  We just spent an hour in the dingy visiting the foot of a huge glacier in its own inlet about a mile deep.  Coming here was a last minute whim on my part and it’s one of the most extraordinary places we’ve seen….of course the sun really helps.  There is very little information in the pilots because very few yachts have ever been here.Today's run was 52 miles

It will be hard to select the pictures for tonight as I took over a hundred today but I'll hasve a go.  The first is the rush hour mentioned earlier and the rest a selection from the magnificent Estéro de las Montanas.