Carreterra Austral Day 3 Hornpiren To Chaiten And The Bridge

Meeting up with Juan and Alice at 9.00am as we were to do (as told by the ferry guys) we all managed to get tickets on the spot, motos always no problem, just cars that have to book in advance.

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Loaded and leaving at 10.00am we enjoyed our 3.5 hour ferry ride to the next port, a small 11.00 km ride to the next shorter ferry ride of 45 minutes then onto the main ride down to Chaiten to stock up on fud then onto our campsite under a bridge.

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The ruffians

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Loading onto the next Ferry

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Our bike, the 250 Advespa and two BMW's

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Disembarking

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At the end of the ferry crossing we set up for the ride

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The Carretera Austral providing beautiful backdrops as we made our way south, we rode with the others just cruising and checking the place out, most excellent….slightly unusual combo of a 250 AdVespa and 950 SE but it worked.

Check out the size of these plants,Alice is about 6 ft tall

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Riding past Volcan Chaiten it was steaming and venting clouds, a very cool sight to see.

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Lots of damage done from previous eruptions

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Stocking up in Chaiten was moto central, I could not believe how many motos were sifting around, everything from a 125 yammy roady up to a 1200 GSA massively loaded with one dude on it…..hmmmm.

Making our way to camp it turned out to be the big bridge I wanted photos with, the site is on ioverlander which unfortunately I think will be the death of the site with rubbish and human waste from inconsiderate travellers who believe no-one else can see their colier and half a roll of toilet paper .

A chilean in a car had his car parked right smack bang in the middle of two good tent camping sites, Juan asked him nicely if we could have one of them….no.

We left then returned, Alice went over and asked and explained that they were parked on top of good tent sites, the wife was not happy but the husband agreed to shift their car a bit so everyone could share, in a show of thanks and good faith I went over and gave them some butterscotch lollies which the well fed wife seemed to like .…smooth waters again.

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Although in was New York central as far as campers go with motorhome, cyclists, cars and motos we still had a great night talking travel, motos and general shit about life over a rum or two.

The starry night providing some great viewing from our home for the night.