Gib 100 ton Gun - Spain - Sunfish- Fuengirola
Moxie - Beck Family Adventure
Mike, Denise, Asia and Aranya Beck
Thu 7 Jul 2011 19:48
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46.32.45N 004.36.99W
In Gib, during a Westerly which we had for a couple of
days the exhaust smell from ships, I guess, was making me feel quite ill.
I decided that it's probably not a healthy place to live. Some idiot
Frenchman parked next to us while I was out with the girls, despite having 15
metres of space he managed to bash into Moxie, we didn't notice any damage until
after we arrived at the next port. Moxie now sports a nice big French
racing stripe on the Starboard side.
 Fairly close to the airport here, and this is the space the Frenchman
missed!
School trip to the 100 ton gun. It's over 100
years old and was powered by steam driven hydrolics, it took at least 3 hours
after lighting the fires to build up enough steam to move the gun into
positon. !100 years ago that was fine as the ships were slow and would
take four hours to be in range to fire after being sighted.
 100 ton gun.
 A 100 ton gun projectile, it had an 8 mile
range.
 Rotea bay, where I had a dive and where Victory came in
for repairs after the battle of Trafalgar.
We left on a beautiful flat calm day, the sea was so
still that the Rock was reflecting nicely as we motored past on our way
north. It also highlighted the pollution issue. The forecast had
granted us a 3-4 westerly in the afternoon lunch which suited us nicely for our
50 mile passage. Unfortunately the afternoon in Spain seems to mean 22:00
or so - i.e. we motored 50 miles.
 Smoggy, yuk!
 Leaving Gib.
We saw many floppy black fins, smaller this time and
some close enough that we could definitely see the sunfish below, definitely not
a ray (so our French expert was mistaken - I was extremely skeptical of
that). Surprisingly we startled one and it leapt clear out of the water
skipping twice. Such a peaceful looking animal certainly does not look
like it would give such a turn of speed and power. I guess faced with
being Moxied in half or exerting energy I'd do the same.
 Sunfish!
Being close to Malaga Airport, Fuengirola is highrise
city, well the entire coast here is. At the marina there 20 or so
restaurants with the menu's in English.
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