Position 28 28.05N 16 14.68W

16/10/11 Left Puerto Mogan for Santa Cruz, Tenerife.  Very windy, F7 in places.  Arrived 1620 and squeezed between aluminium boat and pontoon.  Harbour guy asked if we had thinner fenders.

16/10/11 – 27/10/11

Really nice city, marina right within, would be great if not for the building work.  More European money going to improve docksides.  Lots of shops and we managed to do most of our provisioning for trip to Cape Verdes and thence Caribbean.  We hired a car for a week.  Met up with Karicool for the last few days which was great.  Stephen obviously has the St Bernard nose.  Looking for the gas filling station he spotted it up a narrow road on an industrial estate.  His luck then held out as we had to go find the garage where he could buy some gas canisters – and yes we found the right one – there he could fill in the quadruple forms for the bottles.  We also found a plank which Paul spent a day sanding down, varnishing and adding rungs to, so we now have a boarding ladder.

View from Punta de los Oreganos towards Santa Cruz in far back ground.

Off-loading a catch of ‘Sardinos’ at Los Cristianos.

The empty beach at Los Cristianos – weather not too good.

Typical canarian balcony – used to be made of tea wood.

Me with the type of fern that Paul bought – but it died.  Here’s what it should have looked like, no wonder it did not like the bathroom climate.

There are lots of terraces with stone walls on which used to grow crops.  Some are still be used but a lot are abandoned.  They grow bananas on the low land and further up we found these terraces of potatoes:

We have been eating a lot and one of my favourite dishes is Pimento Padron:

Once again lovely pine forest in the mountains: