Cape Finisterre / Sardineiro
Moxie - Beck Family Adventure
Mike, Denise, Asia and Aranya Beck
Mon 2 Aug 2010 23:00
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Sardineiro 42.56.32N 009.13.83W
Soon we will call ourselves sailors, Cape Finisterre check. So that leaves Capes Horn, and a great many others that I'd list here if my geography
was up to scratch.
  Rounding Finisterre
We pulled into Sardineiro and had our choice of
two anchorages both completely empty of yachts. We wondered what was
wrong with us and why no one else was here - it seemed nice
enough. No wifi but that is becoming routine now.
Ria de Ares was it seems a bit special as we had our choice of two open
connections there.
Day two there are now 11 boats in our private little
anchorage, mostly French, I guess we were just lucky yesterday.
  So another nice day on the beach and another meal out,
and a very nice meal it was too. Bit of a false start on that one, we
first went to a Tapas bar on the beachfront however it was obvious very shortly
afterwards that they were in bar operation only. So we ordered a couple of
drinks, vino tinto, cerveza and dos coca colas. The wine and beer were
fine, the coke however turned out to be chocolate milk 'Coco Cao' and the
waitress was asking if we wanted it in a glass or bottle. Well we thought
a glass would be nice and agreed, anyway she shot off with the kids drinks and
arrived back with heated hot chocolate which the kids enjoyed all the
same.
We posted a couple of letters (cheques really) off and
other that that just chilled. Really not a lot happens in this
little village that we could tell anyway. We had a bit of a dig
for shellfish but found nothing bigger than a little fingernail, mussels were
plentiful on the rocks though. We had a guy swim out from the beach around
the boat say hello and swim back to shore, there is also a
guy snorkeling around with a spear gun but he seemed seem to return
empty handed.
Many of the houses ashore have these raised stone food
stores, according to the pilot book they are for grain storage, anyway they
are a nice piece of heritage to retain. Flowers on the beach were photo
worthy too it seems.
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