A seaside stroll

Wednesday 12th October - Thursday 13th October

We rolled over as the alarm went off at 9am and peeked out the curtains. The smell of wet trees, rain, storm and sea was enough to tempt us to stay another day. Well why start cycling in this downpour when we have a beautiful home here. Plus we could walk to the nearest town and pick up supplies for all the food we'd been craving - porridge oats, bread, baked potatoes, eggs, bacon, flour (pancakes of course!), cheese, strawberries, avocados, milk, cereal, tea... Just homely basics we were longing for! In fairness, I should mention that I'd made poor Ant cycle to the nearest town last night when we got here so that we had at least some of this for today, which meant we could enjoy a lazy morning of tea drinking, cereal eating and bacon frying to fuel us enough for the walk back to town to get more food!

The walk itself was beautiful. A good stormy day, spitting with rain, trotting along the black volcanic sands, next to the roaring Pacific. With sea on our left, a forest on our right and a deserted beach ahead we walked for hours. Well passed the town. But that was more than ok. We were in our element. Then we headed through the beautiful smelling forest aiming back towards the town where we picked up a little lady dog, very friendly and keen to follow us (we gave up our many failed attempts of shoeing her away and let her just trot alongside us). She even waited patiently outside the shop for us, with only a few strawberry ends for a reward!

We took a slightly more direct route back along the beach, and found our new friend was there every step of the way. She even snuggled in closer when other bigger scarier dogs had a go at her, despite my very clear explanation that I wouldn't protect her in a fight... Clearly she can't speak English! About a km away from home when we thought we might have finally lost her to a ginger cute looking boy dog, we turned around to find them both stalking us. At this rate it wouldn't be long before the pied piper would be jealous! So we strolled along the beach with our new found family, watching them chase birds, each other, and their tails, and eventually left them sitting outside the gate to our cabins while we baked potatoes, made pancakes, drank tea and beer, and watched a film.

What a glorious day. It will be super sad to leave here tomorrow...

...so we didn't!! Oops!


The heavens were flooding open today and our cabin was so lovely and warm. So we stayed another day.

We walked the other way along the cliffs, watched surfing, scrambled across rocks, ate chips and steamed seafood broth at the restaurant, with a beer of course, wondered into , gained boy ginger stalker dog again for mist of the walk, then snuggled down again sheltering out the rain.

What a glorious couple of days in this crazy spot in the middle of Chile - how lucky we were to stumble across this place.