This was the last official weekend we had in Puerto Montt before the close of assignment. The winter chill is setting in (with snow at 700 Meters only) and weather true to its character was so different than the clear week.
We had two sets of activities planned with different teams going on both (with some overlap). The first was visit to hot springs (which was not very keen on) and then the Sunday trip for Kayaking. Having been to multiple rafting trip and a late minute entry to Kayaking, was of the view that this may be similar, but weather had different tricks up its sleeves.
We were to start rafting in a lake, but winds and slight rains meant the water was not that stable with waves and we moved out to a river downstream which had cover from waves by the way of hills around around, providing a nice place to kayak. Only issue in this area were logs in the river and avoidance of the same.
With rains pouring every minute, only Masahiro was using his camera. Dave had brought his too, but his and Zuzana's kayak hit a log in river and overturned. Masahiro and myself were in the same Kayak, Masahiro was brave enough to use his phone to click pictures while Kayaking in that rain, which only grew harder by the minute.
By the time we did break for lunch rainfall was so heavy that we could not have eaten food at an open beach, so place selected was between forested area and camp team had a small tent to ensure water did not enter our food.
Overall rain kept getting heavy and we had to cut the trip close to 15 Kms but we got some breathtaking views of the river course, hills around, low clouds and snow at just 700 meters, apart from couple of water falls visible from the river. We now head into our last week of the #ibmcsc Chile assignment and closure on the reports
We had two sets of activities planned with different teams going on both (with some overlap). The first was visit to hot springs (which was not very keen on) and then the Sunday trip for Kayaking. Having been to multiple rafting trip and a late minute entry to Kayaking, was of the view that this may be similar, but weather had different tricks up its sleeves.
We were to start rafting in a lake, but winds and slight rains meant the water was not that stable with waves and we moved out to a river downstream which had cover from waves by the way of hills around around, providing a nice place to kayak. Only issue in this area were logs in the river and avoidance of the same.
With rains pouring every minute, only Masahiro was using his camera. Dave had brought his too, but his and Zuzana's kayak hit a log in river and overturned. Masahiro and myself were in the same Kayak, Masahiro was brave enough to use his phone to click pictures while Kayaking in that rain, which only grew harder by the minute.
By the time we did break for lunch rainfall was so heavy that we could not have eaten food at an open beach, so place selected was between forested area and camp team had a small tent to ensure water did not enter our food.
Overall rain kept getting heavy and we had to cut the trip close to 15 Kms but we got some breathtaking views of the river course, hills around, low clouds and snow at just 700 meters, apart from couple of water falls visible from the river. We now head into our last week of the #ibmcsc Chile assignment and closure on the reports
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