Ria de Ares
Moxie - Beck Family Adventure
Mike, Denise, Asia and Aranya Beck
Thu 29 Jul 2010 23:08
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43.25.47N 008.14.08W
Ria de Ares
We motored around the corner from La Coruna to a lovely
wee inlet with a choice of nice swimming beaches, rock pools, a playground and a
supermarket close to the beach - everything we need and, guess what - Jaywalker
left 2 hours before us and have came here today too, ha - snap. So we
have anchored a few hundred metres off the beach and got the tinker dinghy out
and ready for more beach and bikinis.
We took the girls snorkeling gear and gave them their
first lessons outside of a bath. I'm tempted to go for a dive as there
were a few decent sized scallop shells on the beach, my hesitation is mainly
that I only have one tank and no compressor - I'm kicking myself now for
that decision, advice taken was that 2 grand would fill a lot of tanks, err yes
it would, but it won't get done here and now and I so we'll need
to find a dive shop, sail to it, carry the tank wait hmm where can I find some
more dosh then? Then again I don't know what the regulations are and
my Spanish only says hello, thank you and counts to ten.
There's a wee boat next to us with a dog, the owners
have gone ashore and the dog has decided to go too. Just as well the
dinghy was out and ready as by the time I got to him and pulled him aboard he
was a very tired dog indeed. The boat Timalli I think had a
small platform on the boarding ladder and I managed to get him back
aboard safely enough. The owners were very surprised to hear the
story and very pleased indeed to still have him, here he is back safe and
sound.
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 Beach ball is really popular, basically paddy tennis
bats and a squash ball, so do as the locals do we ventured into town and got our
own. We had a bit of a false start on that one and bought the
wooden bats with the plastic grip that breaks in 3 minutes flat, so now we
have the solid plastic variety as well. We are still all stand out
white skins but with temperatures reaching about 30 every day and hardly a cloud
that will change soon.
Before we left we spoke to our circumnavigator neighbors
'Windsong' about their experiences, in 5 years they did not catch a single
fish. What they needed was a Denise, 10 minutes!
 We stayed here 3 days, tomorrow we are off back in the
right direction 45 miles or so to the wee fishing villiage of
Corme.
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