Morro Jable
Stargazer of Southampton
Susie and Adam (both think they are skipper)
Sat 20 Nov 2010 09:24
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19:11.10,
28.02.76N 14:20.98W We finally left Gran Tarajal today for a short sail
down to Morro Jable on the south coast of the island and are now anchored off
the beach on a nice warm evening. . . the nice warm evening did have the
added dis-advantage of bringing out the German naturists onto the beach though
for a sun-down dip en-masse, good job we weren't eating at the time anyway. .
. . . Where we are anchored it is rumored to sometimes have
very strong gusts of wind come off the mountains in the evening, so we're hoping
it stays calm. . . perhaps that was what happened to the German tourists - their
clothes were there but got blown away in a freak gust.
Tomorrow we're planning to go to the far south west
tip of the island so that early on Sunday or Monday we can cross to Gran Canaria
which is about 60 miles away - we got our first sight of Gran Canaria this
evening where you could see it in the distance from the anchorage. We're
waiting to go up to the Capital of Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, once the ARC
(Atlantic Rally for Cruisers) leaves - they have pretty much commandeered the
marina and anchorage for a couple of weeks as there are a couple of hundred
boats - but once they leave there are just as many boats again waiting to get
into the port, us being one of them.
We had some pictures from a while back we never put
up as we hadn't identified the sea beast and the photo's aren't great as they
are taken from a video - however, thanks to Mum and Dad who got us a book on
Whales and Dolphins when we were back home - we now think that we saw a
pair of Minke Whales back on the Spanish coast! we had thought pilot
whales but they were a bit too big and now with our new and vast
whale knowledge we think that the fins were wrong and the faces too
pointy - so - here is what we think are Minke Whales which swam past us
about 70 metres from the boat. .. . ..
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