Canaries to cape Verdes
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World record set in getting Fan and Pete to airport, last supermarket shop, laundry washed, provisions stowed, last updating of blogs and other jobs and we are all ready to leave for the Cape Verdes as soon as the wind turns round! Don’t expect there to be any photos – apart from caught
fish- as all there is to see is the sea! 761 miles to go!
And an amazing display by a huge pod of
dolphins! – Sadly, camera didn’t do them justice and only remembered
I’d got a vid camera too late to work out how to turn it on before
the show was over and they
disappeared No fish but a rainbow
instead!
Just after saying “no fish” we caught a big
tuna (we think!) Well, maybe it wasn’t a tuna but it was delicious coated in coriander and black pepper! Today, so far, we’ve lost out 2 new squid-like lures!! That’s one very expensive fish! The first lure got wrapped in the wind generator again so Mike/Marvin reappeared! A very big fish snapped off the 2nd. The luminescence at night is amazing huge flashes of light – like small fireworks or lightening.
Tiny little flying fish landed on the deck,
poor little thing. They fly so far they look like small birds
hovering over the
sea.
This morning we had a playschool moment while
we made a new squid-type lure out of tinsel and Xmas ribbon! Sea too
rough – and so is Mike! -
to test it yet tho. Look at the state of
him!
First thing this
morning, Mike went round the deck throwing off the sardine size
flying fish that had landed on us overnight. He missed this one tho,
who managed to land in the mosquito net on the hatch under the
dinghy! Really blowy night so neither of us much rested. Arrived in
Palmeira anchorage on Sal in the Cape Verdes after 5 days and 6
hours. Well pleased with ourselves. Anchored in a horrid place with
a Shell plant in view! Woken at 7 being told to move out of way of ship wanting to leave!
Oops!
Local “boat boy” showed us round the village
–didn’t take long- so we gave him a euro, he wanted 5. Probably go back and
puncture our dinghy, I said. Get back to dinghy to find the waterproof we keep
in dinghy to stop getting splashed- missing! Makes you wonder whether we should
have given him the 5 Euros! I’ve cut Mike’s hair – it looks good and
shaved bit is growing back nicely. Then he cut my hair…………………!
Bit of local colour on Sal, Cape
Verdes
Got a beer at the local bar. Great backdrop!
And headed off to next island – Sao
Nicolau
Sao Nicolau looks completely different from
Sal. Dinghyed ashore and checked in – not
a lot going for it! So checked out at the same time! And
moved on the next morning to our final Cape Verde Island, Sao
Vincente, before we leave to cross “the
pond”.
We caught up with 4 of the bigger boats,
which left at about the same time, so pretty pleased with ourselves! Lost our
homemade lure on the way tho! Those fish are just too darned
big! Went into Mindelho town to buy yet more lures. Quite a lively place with lots of services – only wasted 9Euros on fishing tackle this time! And then, in the afternoon, went back into town and bought more lures! Gluttons for punishment! The plan, now, is to check out of the marina here tomorrow and anchor in the bay ready to depart for Grenada on Sunday. Ooh ‘eck! Over 2 weeks without sight of land – not sure I like this sailing malarkey! |
