Eurotrip 3, 2015 – Day 43, Kayaking…

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Kayak rental today from restaurant Los Alamos in close proximity to Camping Los Batanes.

Through the canyon

Through the canyon

 

We kayaked around Laguna San Pedro and through a narrow canyon to the next lake upstream.

 

 

 

 

 

Mo's cave

Mo’s cave

 

Mo didn’t fancy navigating through the small cave. But relented anyway – either that or swim…

Like most people we have met here, the chap with the Kayaks was most helpful and friendly, doing his best to speak in English. Wish our Spanish was as good as his English.

 

 

Camping Los Batanes is changing again before our very eyes. Folks have been pouring into the site all day and everything is busying up again for the weekend. Spent late afternoon people watching, particularly a Spanish family who arrived shortly after lunch. Perfect execution of manoeuvring his van into position until his wife returned from the café, marched across the campsite and remonstrated that she wanted a different pitch. He duly obliged (how sad is that!).

The influx of people did have its merits in that the local Pizza restaurant was open again thus solving the dinner dilemma.

Camping Los Batanes at night

Camping Los Batanes at night

The site looks terrific in the late evening. Such an extreme of temperatures here. The daytime high of early 30 degrees occurs around 5:00 pm and yet just 12 hours later, the mercury falls to some11 degrees, ensuring a good nights sleep (for everyone), without the caravan windows remaining open…