Lago Huillinco

For those of you whose Chilean Spanish needs some help, that is the Castillian version of a native word that is pronounced WeJINco. This past week was Chilote summer at it's best, sunny and in the 70's during the day and cool at night. Mike was busy clearing the work decks so he could ease off the next two weeks when Grammie Olsson comes to visit. Gabi went off to day care to practice her Spanish. And Berto and Lisa took the bus to Lago Huillinco. In the morning Huillinco is still and rather quiet. We caught a pretty bird on the end of the village dock. (I'll leave it to you bird watchers to identify.)
The village of Huillinco is a few houses, rural school, church, small market and a campground for the summer mochileros. (mochileros = backpackers) Fortunately for us our friend Margot has a casita on the beach. Berto and I walked the 300 meters down the road to Margot's casita. After noon a breeze started up. By 2 a strong wind was coming from the Pacific, 10 km to the west, kicking up a good surf onto our beach. Berto shifted from sand architecture to playing in the wind driven waves.
About the only downside on the day was that Lisa got some funny sun burn on her back. She needs to train Berto a little better on sun screen application.