Costa da Morte - Camarinas
Magnetic Attraction
Roger and Margaret Pratt
Sun 5 Jul 2009 19:03
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43:07.58N
09:10.67W
The plan was that we would leave Ares
at 6am BST - get up and go. But it was raining, so we went back to sleep
and left at 8am, off the Torres de Herculeo at 9am.
It was cold! But still no wind,
other than in the squalls. We took full advantage and rigged all 3 sails
whenever the wind permitted - on the second squall we saw 23 knots and flew the
genoa reefed, raoring along at 0ver 7 knots. As we got further south, we
were able to bear off, but with a significant swell needed to use the
engine - just ticking over - to maintain way comfortably.
It's not surprising that the coast is
known as the Costa da Morte: the coast is very exposed and there are few safe
havens. We went past Corme and Laxe; in particular Laxe looked exposed
(didn't see Corme so I guess that it must be more secluded) and, as we came into
the Camarinas ria, so was Muxia - like Laxe, on the south side of the
ria.
Windmills everwhere! despite the lack
of wind, most running. Says much about the weather round
here...
We arrived at Camarinas 6pm
BST. It's a lovely fishing village clinging to an East-facing hill - so
protected from West through South East. There is a mole that would provide
some protection from a SW swell. We're tucked in behind the mole at
anchor, and had a drink before supper on our "Gin seats" (2 folding stools I had
as free gifts from CIPFA conference 5 years ago - thank you, Schroders!) before
supper of kidneys out of the freezer, followed by Iles Flottantes and
cherries. Bliss!
Hope to make our way
further south tomorrow....
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