42:05:8520N 8:55:8560W Next stop Portugal
Silver Bear
Ray Lawry
Sat 5 Sep 2009 11:33
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We spent the night anchored off the Islas Cies a
small pair of islands forming a natural breakwater to the entrance to Vigo
and Bayona. The day tripper boats all went home leaving us to a pretty much
deserted beach and glorious setting sun. It would have been perfect had it not
been for the brisk breeze and slop that meant Ali had no sleep! It's lucky she
did'nt need to get up for work in the morning and could call the butler for
another cup of tea.
The Spanish Ria's were well worth a visit. It would
have been easy to spend longer there but the weather seems to be hinting at it's
intention to turn into autumn, together with the associated strong westrerly
winds, and we have a long way to go south to warmer climes. A few days back,
maybe thursday (the days have started to drift into a general haze) we sailed
into Ria Pontevedra. The radio was forecasting gale force winds but fortunaately
we were just south of them, although there were strong winds against us and a
miserable sea, the sort you might imagine being on a top loading washing
machine. As we went through the Ria visibility was down to a few hundred meters
and we could have been going into Camals Head creek. When the sun came out inthe
morning it felt a lot different and we took a taxi into Pontevedra, a charming
town with plenty of national monuments and well tended parks. The tapas was just
how we dreamed should be and made us realise, once again, that you need to get
away from the coastal holiday destinations to get a true taste of a
country, and excellent value too.
The picture below shows what is left of our
neighbours boat in Camarinas and hopefully some others of general
interest. We managed several of the surface of the water, yet
more failures to capture a large pod of (I think Bottlenose) dolphins
we came across in the Ria.
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