Arrival in Las Palmas
Storyteller
Sat 13 Oct 2007 12:51
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Saturday, October 11
We have about 3 hours to run in beautiful
sunny but calm conditions before arriving in Las Palmas. I was just
interrupted while typing this message by the sighting of a very large whale
about 100 meters from the boat. Since my last message we landed and stayed
overnight at Marina Rubicon on the island of Lanzarote. Yesterday in company
with our friends John and Irene we motored down to the bottom Fuerteventura and
anchored of a beach resort. Many naked Germans on a very nice sand
beach.
Peter caught a small tuna yesterday and Derek
turned out a large plate of tuna soused in olive oil, lemon juice, pepper and
salt. We have been travelling in company with our friends Irene and John Hunt
from "Southern Princess" and they joined us for BBQ and fish
dinner.
Derek and Peter have been wonderful company and we
will be very sad when they leave us and fly back to the UK. Of course Derek and
Bernadine will be back next month to do the Atlantic crossing but be have not
been able to persuade Peter to come with us. He has just given up
smoking and has been hyperactive, constantly fiddling with all the boat systems
usually with great success. He even managed to fix the CD stacker which had
become constipated. He also turned the "man overboard" alarm on at o'clock
in the morning!
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