42:39.8N 9:03.5E

 

15 June  Ship cleaned, Danuta arrives on time, sail and motor along spectacular mountainous coast to anchor off beach for night

 

Depart St Florent 1250

Arrive Anse de Peralola 1750, 17nm

Sunny all the way

 

Danuta, Jan’s wife, arrived by taxi having flown in to Bastia – horribly on time (skip caught still cleaning heads). Yacht next door cast off lines and started heading out, till Jane pointed out pushchair still on quay (tho babe safely on board). Quick bit of reversing to collect from helpful Jan! Motor out of bay – see microlite with rubber duck underneath land on sea. Bit of fetch along the top heading W, lovely beaches with many anchored off, but we need to do a few more miles. Discover Jan’s Ipad chart depths have default to feet not meters. Good to know. Anchor in 12ft off a less attractive beach by ourselves We chose end away from main road – then notice it is nudy end. Sea too cold for Jan to swim – must still be really cold. Forgot to look at forecast in St Florent – Navtex giving NE so well sheltered. Plan to stay anchored and set off early morning. Sea breeze dies, land breeze drifts in with  first smell of mediterranean scents. Could be the” maquis” (rock rose), a spiny  dense shrub covering large areas with hidden trails exploited by Corsican resistance in WW2 to evade detection by Italian Gestapo (and the name later applied to the whole anti German resistance network on the continent).