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Estero Fouque

In the morning we found ourselves in Estero Fouque of Isla Hoste around 55º03'10'' South (still amazing to be saying South rather than North with coordinates!), 69º33'30'' W.

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Estero Fouque is a couple mile long fjord, and due to arriving early in the morning I wasn't sure which way we had entered the fjord from as I rolled out of my bunk to help anchor in a little cove.

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With our visiting Swedes off with Charlie investigating different coves to core Christine and I went for a hike in the mountains above Ocean Tramp.

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I quickly sited some interesting looking waterfalls and started heading there direction.

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The waterfalls turned out to be feeding a nice little lake.

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Above the lake I found a nice little waterfall where I took a little shower.

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We found a lookout over a lake....

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... which has a relatively nice looking river flowing out of it.

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We started to try to make our way down a different to try to get a look at the river

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With some snacks along the way.

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Eventually I made it down to the river which looks relatively nice, but it's too low volume to make for any sort of reasonable paddling. There may be a couple of fun drops, but in general with 150-200 cfs looking to be high-ish for the river the whole thing probably will be more work than paddling.

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