Almerimar

Philippides III
Chris & Carol Jackson
Sun 12 Apr 2009 12:50
Well, we had a pleasant enough voyage from Gibraltar to Almerimar and covered the 127 miles in 19 hours, so quite good going. We had a following wind and just sailed with the main, wind died as usual during the night so burnt some of our cheap diesel purchased in Gib at 65p a litre. We were surrounded by numerous dolphoins during the afternoon and they could be heard squeaking from our cabin, the hull of the boat acting as an amplifier. I slept from 2130 until 2400, and then sent Carol off to bed, had to awake her around 0600 to give me a hand with ropes as we entered the Marina.Its now 1400 on Easter Sunday and we have had a few more hours sleep and a large brunch, the weather is blissful, wall to wall blue and around 21c, still snow on the Sierra Nevada.
Chris
 
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