| Datum: | 30-06-2016 Camarinas | | | | Monday 27-6-2016 to Thursday 30-06-2016
Today we move over to the Ria de Camariñas. We leave promptly, although it is only 20 miles ahead. The wind, luckily, has died down, so we don’t have too much trouble getting away from the high quay. In the beginning there is little wind, so the engine is switched on, but as soon as we are out of the Ria, it increases and we put the main sail up. Sometime later, the engine is no longer necessary and we sail only on the main sail, we have loads of time, don’t we? The weather is fine, though chilly, but we don’t let it spoil the fun; we are really sailing again and with a little music in the background we are right where we want to be! The coast is jagged and that really shows at Cabo Vilano, a gigantic chunk of stone with a lighthouse on it, very impressive to see.
After rounding this, we sail alongside some shallows, Las Quebrantas and here suddenly the wind builds up with peaks up to 28 knots (force 7). Now this is what I call sailing, I’m totally happy! We sail, still on the main sail, with quite some speed into the Ria Camariñas. The landscape consists of green rolling hills and some beaches, where you can berth nicely, at least when there is not so much wind as there is now. We go instead for the port. As soon as we approach the jetty, we down the sail and motor into the harbour. There still is quite a punchy wind, we see that there is a very small and short jetty. We quickly hang the fenders much lower. Fortunately we are helped with the mooring by the harbour master and an Englishman. We are not even fixed as the harbour master pushes an application into my hands and orders me in Spanish to fill this in within 10 minutes! Yeah, right….he can just wait, …till the cows come home…
Harbour and port charges
The harbour master is a bit of a grumpy guy, who rattles on in Spanish about this and that. We got a discount, although this was not such an expensive harbour. But hey, every little bit helps. There is a yacht club with a restaurant, where you can get free tapas, when you present a pass, after you have ordered a drink! The facilities are nothing special, for men and women just 2 showers, 1 toilet and a sink. There is 1 washing machine and 1 dryer, in a very small cabin and only the harbour master has the key. When he is not in his office, everything is locked, so worst case scenario: you can’t put your laundry in the dryer or washing machine and have to wait till he gets back from his siesta. Even more, the dryer program takes hours and hours. The harbour itself looks a bit shabby and the piers and jetties could do with a maintenance service.
The town
From the harbour you take a long footbridge, that runs over the old part of the harbour, to the long boulevard, where there are some restaurants. There are a few supermarkets, but we haven’t seen any bakery. We made a tour of the town and concluded that it wasn’t any special. Just a few pretty narrow streets, houses with colourful flowers and that’s it. The tourists you meet there are all sailors from the harbour.
The weather
The mornings are mostly hazy and there are many clouds, but most of the time this pulls away after a few hours and then the day turns warm and sunny. We have really changed colour since we left Holland! Only the last day in Camariñas is rainy and cloudy.
Food and drink
The ‘Tortilla de Patata’ is one of the focal points of the rich Spanish kitchen. The beauty of the recipe sits in the splendid combination of simple ingredients: egg, potato and olive oil. With a wonderful ‘Salata mixta’, often eaten in Spain, some bread and a good glass of red wine, we have a delightful lunch.
Boat chores
Again we have replaced some of the lines of the fenders and have provided the windmill with a switch, so we can switch it off when we are in a port. We put pieces of rubber under the poles of the solar panels, to stop the rattling.
Other things
Fred did some work and I turned a few wash cycles and cleaned the boat a little. We have temporarily spread a net at the front of the boat, to make it more difficult for Kit to jump ashore. When it is really warm, Kit prefers most of all to lie inside on the saloon couch, but as soon as it cools a bit, he makes his daily round on deck. He entrenches himself behind the dinghy, to stare at the fish in the water. In this harbour there are also many big fish swimming around and they nibble on the bottom of the boat. That produces a very strange noise, that you can hear particularly well when inside. Kit never stops looking up with a surprised look upon his snout. Of course we took another Fritz & Gonny picture!
Encounters
At our arrival we find Suzanne and Mark of the “Freya”, they move on the next day. Next to us was an Englishman with the “Charlotte Rose”; he is planning to stay in Spain for a year. For the rest, there were a lot of French and English boats in the harbour.
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| | | 4-07-2016, reactie van Geert | Hè fred en Caroline hoe is het gaat goed hè
Ik lees jullie verhalen
Gr geert en davey
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| | | | 5-07-2016, reactie van Erik en Jeanete | Hoi. Jullie blogs verschijnen in hoog tempo. We zijn net terug uit Schotland en probeer een beetje bij te lezen. Hoop dat het weer goed blijft. Liefs, Erik en Jeanette
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