las palmas tour
Chaser 2
Yvonne Chapman
Tue 7 Nov 2006 12:43
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As promised a photo of the stricken
vessel. Since its sinking, the port have summoned a crane and got it lifted out
of the water. They had a barrier surrounding it to prevent its oil and fuel
polluting the sewage floating around. Water was flowing nicely out of the stern
of the boat while it was suspended above the water. Unfortunately the lifting
strops didn't have any speaders so it collapsed the cabin roof. We walked passed
the following day to see the damage, the crane and the
pollution barrier had gone, so had the boat, downwards! I think someone must forgot to put the plug back in. It's still there. I hope the port authorities don't read this, but organization isn't one of their strong points. I know they are busy with 250 boats arriving over the past 6 weeks and next couple, but they putting the new arrivals in place, then move them the following day or week, the reason being, they want bigger boats in that space, then they put a small boat in its place. In our case they asked us to move, for the same reasons and put a boat of the same size in our place. Why? nobody knows! It's like musical chairs. Our neighbour Tony, refused to move yesterday, he said they've move him six times already, and isn't going to move again. I think he's padlocked his boat to the dock. They are out there now as I write, swapping boats from one side of the dock to the other and one dock to another, for the life of me I cannot see any logic whatsoever. Yvonne and me took a tourist bus (Guagua turistica) ride around the city. It's an open top double-decker, good value for money too. You pay 8 euros each, you can get on and off as many times as you want or just go round in circles all day. Las Palmas is a huge city, so it's interesting to see the sites and locations of various parts of the city. We jumped off at a large commercial centre, had a wander around and caught the next Guagua when we wanted to visit somewhere else. They run every half hour, if you stay on the bus the trip would last approx. 1hr 45mins. We got off again in the old part of the city to find somewhere interesting for lunch before heading back up to the northern end. Look at this Ice-cream parlour (helados) there are many architecturally ornate buildings of this type, purely ice-cream vendors, of course you can get a beer in there too. And lastly a view from above looking over the port of Las Palmas, pretty big. Our son Rob is at the boat show in
Barcelona today, he's been talking of buying a boat for sometime now, a boat he
can take himself and a few friends out angling for the day, with a couple of
bunks for an overnight stay if necessary. It will be a similar type but more
modern version of our old 'Busby' the boat Bob and me built some years ago
now. I wonder where it is now.
I'll say hi to Alan and Jos now, I know they like to read our blog and relight their boating ideals, my snout tells me Alan is off to the boat show too. Hi also to their two sons Lee and James, good lads and have helped us a lot. And finally for this chapter, a big hello to old friends Sue and Sean, a picture of the big guy and Sue below when they were sailing with us in Spain last year. |
