Portimao again
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Steve & Carol
Sat 30 Sep 2017 12:25
37:06.85N 008:31.379W
We spent 5 days at Alvor exploring the town, socialising and relaxing, I
borrowed a kayak from another boat and went for a paddle which was fun – I want
one!
The channel in Alvor is fairly narrow – this boat misjudged where to anchor
and at low water was a little high and dry!
We had to get back to Portimao to collect a replacement wind generator
which was due to arrive Tuesday so set off for the short trip back. We
anchored close to where we were before, there weren't so many boats here but
some familiar faces still. Steve checked the parcel tracking and found that it
was delivered yesterday – Friday how annoying as we will have to wait until
Monday to pick it up!
We went into Portimao – there is a Decathlon shop a couple kilometres walk
and I wanted to look at kayaks, we also found a shop that sells Waitrose and
Iceland produce – We got a couple of bits including sausages for Steve.
We realised how blind we have been – there are actually crane nests
everywhere, in the last photo there are 6 nests!
On Monday Steve collected the replacement wind generator motor – we were
disappointed as emails from company said a new one was on it’s way and what
turned up was a reconditioned one in a poor state! (We had only put ours up in
June and didn't use straight away) after a couple more conversations and a video
call to show poor condition connections etc the company agreed to ship another
one to us – so still no wind power!
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