Here is a picture of us arriving at Las Palmas, it's a big commercial port, with yacht harbours and marinas within it.

 

After our arrival we met up with our new friends Fritz and Chris, they were our neighbours in Rubicon, they left for Las Palmas a week before us, so we arranged to meet up for a drink and a bit of WiFi in Club Varadero.

 

We took a bus today to the southern end of the island, it's a lot different down there, it was warmer too. We stopped at Playa Inglesa, a lovely beach which opens out into massive sand dunes that go on forever. There's no road across the dunes so I think it would be quite a walk to get to the sea. It's all very touristy, as opposed to Las Palmas which is a working capital. All the usual beach shops and Irish bars, McDonalds etc. so we jumped on another bus to Puerto Mogan, a very pretty small fishing port and marina. We had a walk around again looking for a book or newspaper shop. Anyone coming here wanting to buy English boat magazines will be out of luck. Despite all what happens here in the nautical world, there seem to be very few boat magazines for sale, even Spanish ones. Haven't seen any English ones yet, apart from an old Yachting World which is of little interest for our type of sailing. After lunch $D as Chris Doyles guides would say, we returned to Las Palmas.

 

It was a long day a lot of walking, I think next time we'll go into the mountains