Translation of hardwood in German

So it tipped excessively. I mean, she was around sixty or seventy years old. Anyway, we left the boat and embarked on a larger one which took us to a hidden community in the middle of the delta.
They were floating in self made tubs and rowed with sticks. When they reached our boat they tried to sell us beverage. We vigorously denied them access to our boat. It just did not help.
We caught the last bus leaving from Calama to San Pedro the Atacama in the Atacama desert, the driest place on earth. Even NASA is using this place as a live moon simulation area. It was night though.