The Golden Van: Camerón

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We drove this winding gravel highway until lunch time after we stopped in a pull out filled with wind and deserted tires to sup some scorching ramen soup. 

It was nearly two o’clock after we had been welcomed to this village of 100 folks boasting a well being clinic and a faculty and a campground with scorching showers. 

It jogged my memory on a breezy sunny afternoon of some small Northern California coastal group wedged right into a cleft within the coastal cliffs. 

We had already seen this German transformed hearth truck parked on the waterfront in Punta Arenas, although later after we drove out of Camerón they had been gone in all probability to the nationwide park (no canine allowed!) on the very finish of the highway south of right here. 

It was after two however the market which serves because the campground workplace was nonetheless closed. I learn the directions in English and Spanish and wrote down our license plate on a scrap of paper and bundled the required 26,000 pesos ($28) into the drop field to be used when the workplace was closed. There was no point out anyplace of a no canine coverage. 


It was a beautiful spot. 

I wished to reap the benefits of the wonderful climate so I carried eight buckets of potable water from the tap to fill our water tank whereas Layne vacuumed our dwelling.

I emptied our porta potty and we exercised and took lengthy scorching showers. It was pretty and we had been pondering we’d keep an additional day. 

We walked the paths right down to the river previous the tent tenting platforms and reveled within the heat sunshine.  

We had been alone till  a girl in a choose up drove in. Is that this your canine she requested as if it could possibly be anyone else’s. Canines aren’t allowed she stated. Oh I stated is there a motive. To guard the herds (ganado) she stated. On the hills, she added as she noticed me trying round in puzzlement. 

Okay I stated, we’ll pack up but it surely’s a pity you don’t point out this coverage anyplace. She pointed to the signal exterior the bathe “Pets Could Not Enter.”  I’ve seen these indicators in lots of campgrounds the place pets aren’t allowed inside buildings. 

We had been packed and able to go in ten minutes feeling miffed however we had no less than showered and brought benefit of the services and had even dumped our trash and we knew there have been numerous wild camps up the highway …The humorous factor was we had been visited by this native canine wandering round our campsite. No canine certainly.  

The supervisor again on the retailer was wildly indignant and after we got here in to get our a refund she yelled at us and accused us of sneaking in and never paying. And when she discovered  our cost untouched in her lock field she obtained much more embarrassed and yelled louder that guidelines are guidelines. We by no means disagreed however stated it could have been good if they’d talked about this rule on the web site or put a discover on the entrance amongst their different guidelines. She gave us our cash nonetheless yelling as we refused to have interaction and stood silently beneath her abuse. She should  be a holy terror to work  for was all I might suppose. 

We stopped roadside to seek the advice of our map and she or he drove by inches away accelerating angrily and kicking up a mud cloud to tell us what she considered us as if we didn’t already know. What a wierd second it was, leaving us puzzled greater than indignant. One obtained the sensation there have been extra urgent points than us in her life and we had been a spot to vent. 

We drove the twenty miles again to the wild camp close to the penguins and felt relieved that we’ll by no means must see Camerón once more. Pity those who dwell beneath that administration model. As an overlander you aren’t at all times appreciated, you or your cash however no less than it’s simple to drive your private home out of battle zones. I like being a nomad. 

From iOverlander  our evaluation. 

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