PATAGONIA DREAMING
Where do we find a port that hasn’t been shut by Covid-19? Where do we restock food and fuel supplies, clear out and leave for our next port? Do we head back home to New Zealand, across the Pacific Ocean, some 6,000 nautical miles away? What would Chile do with all these foreign cruising boats travelling through Patagonia? For us, the ‘freedom of the open sea’ was no longer free.
Having left New Zealand in June 2015 on a circumnavigation, we were used to changing our minds and rerouting to places that took our fancy. After all, that’s how we decided to sail through Tierra Del Fuego (Land of Fire), visit Cape Horn, and then push on through the famed and beautiful Beagle Channel into the Chilean Channels.
We would leave the west coast of Chile to cross
