52 09.402 S, 073 42.077 W, Puerto Mardon
This morning we were up early and by 7:45 am we were headed south. We had hope to catch a 'flood pushing us' but instead the flood pushed north so we were going against it for part of the time and against the wind as well but only 6-9 knots of wind so not bad.
The sun peaked through the high clouds and we had views of the snow covered Andes and the Torres del Paine. As we came around about to enter Canal Smyth, we got a call on the VHF from a 400+ foot tanker northbound, asking about passing port to port. No problem captain, we will adjust our course and pass you port to port. It is nice having AIS.
We anchored at Puerto Mardon at 1:30 pm. According to our CMap chart on the charter/plotter we were going overland. The Navionics chart on the Ipad was spot on. The anchorage also serves as a fishing camp as there is a structure on shore with some tarps and some fishing equipment.
From our anchorage we can see Volcan Burney, an inactive volcano, its last known eruption was in 1910, which is just fine with us.
Cheers
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