Wolf Kloss - SIM Expeditions - Santa Maria Australis

Ushuaia, Argentina – Valdivia (Puerto Montt), Chile
Sunday 04. 04. 2010 – Friday 30. 04. 2010
27 days
Total: 1300 nm

• Starting in Ushuaia, visiting the hanging glaciers of the Darwin Range.
• Cruising the western part of the Strait of Magellan.
• Heading north the protected waterways of the Chilean Channels.
• Visiting Chiloe Island.

In the Southernmost part of Chile (the austral zone), the geography and nature emerge from the most extreme and spectacular forms that it is possible to imagine, adorned with breathtaking landscapes: a pristine concert of native forests, pampas, islands, fjords, channels, fast flowing rivers, lakes and lagoons, hot springs, majestic millenary ice fields and snowdrifts. It is a zone of extinguished cultures, old cattle ranches and important explorers.

This is a zone where there is no pollution and the waters of its numerous rivers, lakes, lagoons and brooks have a high level of pureness. Here are the last continental ice fields, silent witnesses of the last glaciations, almost 20 thousand years old. This austral zone of magic geography, extreme nature of luxurious Magallanean forests.

Flight connections:

At the beginning of the trip:

Via Chile: Santiago de Chile to Punta Arenas y Ushuaia.
Via Argentina: Buenos Aires to Ushuaia.

At the end of the trip:

Via Chile : Valdivia (Airport in Puerto Montt) to Santiago.
Via Argentina : Pto. Montt to Santiago de Chile to Buenos Aires.

All flights described in this document are only examples. Please ask your travel agency for further information.

Valdivia - Robinson Island 480nm - Easter Island 1620nm
Monday 10. 05. 2010 - Friday 04.06.2010
26 days
Total: 2100 nm

Leaving the inshore waters of the Calle-Calle River in Valdivia downstream, looking for the open Pacific Ocean .

Following Chileans coastline northbound.

Next anchorage in Cumberland Bay on Robinson Crusoe Island.

Robinson Crusoe Island was born out of different volcanic explosions that gave life to Juan Fernandez Archipelago. The complete loneliness lived there by the marine Alexander Selkirk (1704 to 1708) inspired the writer Daniel Defoe to immortalize this experience in one of the classics of the world literature.

The local economy is based on the lobster fishing.

Leaving Robinson Crusoe Island . We will head further north to reach the Trade winds and start rolling down to Easter Island .

Landfall on Easter Island or Rapa Nui

Anchorages are few and depending on the wind. We will have time to visit the famous Maui figures.

Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean .

The island rises over a large submarine platform that emerged as a result of three successive volcanoes.
Myth and reality are mixed in Rapa Nui .

It is an archeological resource important at world level for the mystery of its gigantic stone statues, the moai.

Flight connections:

Via Chile : LAN CHILE

At the beginning of the trip: Santiago de Chile to Valdivia (Airport in Puerto Montt)

At the end of the trip: Easter Island to Santiago de Chile.

All flights described in this document are only examples. Please ask your travel agency for further information.

Easter Island - Pitcairn 1035nm – Mangareva Island 296nm – Tahiti 902nm
Monday 07. 06. 2010 - Friday 02. 07. 2010
26 days
Total: 2314 nm

After some sightseeing on Easter Island we hoist sails to visit Pitcairn Island.

Here, Fletcher Christian ended up his odyssey 1790 after the famous mutiny of the Bounty.

Pitcairn is a group of five islands in the southern Pacific Ocean , of which one is inhabited, it's the last remaining British colony in the Pacific.
It's supposed that Polynesians lived on Pitcairn, but when Spanish explorers in the 15th century discovered the island it was uninhabited.

A last short trip and we will clear on Mangareva Island , the port of Entry to French Polynesia.

Our first Atoll is reached. Welcome to Paradise.

On the next leg we will enjoy some stopovers in the famous Tuamotu Islands .

There are still 900 miles to the Heart of the South Sea , Papeete on Tahiti Island.

Flight connections:

At the beginning of the trip:

LAN CHILE to Easter Island and Papeete.

At the end of the trip:

Air France To Papeete and Easter Island .

All flights described in this document are only examples. Please ask your travel agency for further information.

Papeete Tahiti - Bora Bora
Monday 14. 08. 2010 - Friday 26. 08. 2010
12 days
Total: 350 nm

Flight connections:

AIR FRANCE

All flights described in this document are only examples. Please ask your travel agency for further information.

Bora Bora - Tahiti
Monday 30. 08. 2010 - Friday 10. 09. 2010
11 days
Total: 350 nm

Trip Description: Trade wind sailing between the islands. Enjoy snorkeling in crystal-clear waters, coral reefs and hangout at sunset.

Flight connections:

AIR FRANCE

All flights described in this document are only examples. Please ask your travel agency for further information.

Papeete - Austral Islands 400nm - Cape Horn 4000nm - Ushuaia 100
Sunday 19. 09. 2010 -Thursday 23. 10. 2010
34 days
Total: 4500 nm

Trip Description: A short trip south to Raivavea. After enjoying last days in Paradise we set sails for our long ocean cruising. Passing the “ Roaring Forties ” we reach the “ Furious Fifties ”. The Westwinds will bring us around Cape Horn.

At the dawning of the world....

With all its tiny islets etched out against the sky, where a multitude of sea birds nest, whose strident cries echo to the rhythm of the rise and fall of the surf, and to the song of the distant reef, Raivavae, almost unreal, seems to float within its emerald lagoon.

t is, people say, one of the most beautiful spots in the South Pacific and in one of the most natural settings. Its mountains of dark green velvet, whose slopes are covered in ferns, reach up and touch the bands of cloud rising up to more than 400 meters in the sky.

Source :
GIE Tahiti Tourisme
http://www.tahiti-tourisme.pf

It is time to set sail.

We will head south to find the westerly winds.

Flight connections:

At the beginning of the trip:

At the beginning of the trip:   AIR FRANCE to Papeete, Tahiti

At the end of the trip:            AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS from Ushuaia to Buenos Aires                                              

All flights described in this document are only examples. Please ask your travel agency for further information.