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Minka of Southampton - Cruising Log
Edmund Wigan
Wed 7 Jul 2010 08:43
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My heading sounds a bit like a sequel to a thriller
novel. Sorry to disappoint. I flew back here from the UK about a week ago. I had
not intended writing the blog for the period I will be staying in and around
Mazarron as I am not really going anywhere. However, I have had a few few
deskbound friends asking me to carry on so I will do so. My intention is to stay
here until the end of August as I have quite a few friends coming out for
holidays during this time. Then I am arranging to lift Minka out to antifoul her
before either setting off somewhere else or putting her on a hard standing for
the winter.
Mazarron is a great place........I have now found a
Lidl, what else is needed. The best thing is that I have some good friends who
retired out here some years ago and they are being very hospitable and have
kindly lent me a car so I can explore a bit further than my legs will pedal. We
went to a restaurant the other night and watched the Spain Paraguay match
amongst local Spaniards ...............a very lively evening. I am looking
forward to the match tonight. I rode my bike the 4 miles back to Minka and the
procession of flag waving hooting cars was incredible. I might even get to like
football.
I have taken Minka out a couple of times to explore
the bays and coves along this coast. It is very beautiful with some small
uninhabited islands. Yesterday I decided to have a look at the island
immediately to the east of here. The chart showed the inshore passage as going
below 5mts so I was very doubtful I could get through. There is a special type
of depth sounder here in Spain. No . it is not an audible crunch!. As I was
going inshore I noticed a distinct correlation between the number of people
watching me and the depth. At three metres they were one row deep and at two it
got to a distinct crowd which is when I chickened out much to everyones'
disappointment.
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