WEEK 6 - RESCUED AT LAST After 4 days marooned on the ailing Navimag ferry, ‘Magellane’, only 500k into our 1500k voyage, we were rescued. The journey from Punta Arenas to Peurto Montt through the fiords and channels along the west coast of Chile should have only taken 4 days. A false alarm initially as the Isadora cruise ship, which we had seen several times already, came into view. But shortly after wards at 10.30 am as promised the ‘Port Eden’, Navimag’s second ferry arrived and anchored close by. Fortunately the weather was calm and sunny and for several hours the small fishing boats from the nearby small settlement of Port Eden ferried the 180 stranded passengers to the new vessel. Being a surrogate grannie to the family with a little girl with whom I had
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