34 35.737 S, 058 21.650 W
If you read last night's blog entry, you would know we were complaining about the wind and sea conditions. Well, they continued for most of today. We had hoped that a river would be relatively smooth and slow flowing. Not the case here. It is shallow but still worked itself into uncomfortable conditions.
The river is a wide, flat expanse of brown water. We had to go a long way before we saw the buildings of downtown Buenos Aires. The channel where large ships may pass is relatively narrow, and it is not separated into two lanes and there is no separation zone. A few times, we went outside the channel to avoid getting close to some of the large cargo ships. We saw the ferry to Montevideo, zipping by at 50 knots!
Now we are docked at the Yacht Club Argentino at Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires. It is a relatively new section of town but the yacht club is old and established. Mario, the lancha driver, helped us get settled.
Doug and Nancy, this is the yacht club we saw from the deck of your cabin on the cruise ship, when we visited you here in Buenos Aires two years ago in March.
We walked to the Prefectura office to check in and what did we pass, a Starbucks! Now we can have good coffee for breakfast, plus some pain au chocolate! The Prefectura officers seemed a little confused by our paperwork. They did not have us fill out the forms in quadruplicate like we did in Ushuaia and Mar del Plata. They just took the form we got when we check out of Mar del Plata, signed it and made us a copy. Okay.
Tomorrow we will do some cleaning and scouting around the area.
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