To Queilen
20 August 2015
Richard
Sorry for the long delay in posting.
This is Carolina steering, as we (mostly) motored thru calm water from Quellon to Queilen. While the seas were calm, a big storm was coming, and I was most interested in getting into a very well protected anchorage to sit out the storm.
We looked at a few possible places to anchor in Estero Queilen, and talked to fishermen who said the best protection was in tiny Estero Pailad--a narrow, winding waterway through tranquil farmland. Estero Pailad is a very popular place for anchoring in summer. In winter, with the very frequent rain, there aren't many boats here. While it is very pretty in Estero Pailad, it always rained while I was there, and I don't have any good pictures from it.
Knowing there was a road alongside Estero Pailad, we anchored, then went ashore, and started asking about buses, as Carolina needed to get back to Castro. We learned that the regular bus only ran three times a week, but fortunately there was a special bus running that evening, only six hours later, which Carolina was able to take.
I returned to Issuma, put the dinghy aboard, and sat out two days of strong wind and rain, happily secure with two anchors and one shoreline.