Bayona worm Tuesday

Thursdays Child
Robin & Joanna Minchin
Tue 7 Oct 2014 20:55
42:07.166N
008:50.428W

Still anchored in Bayona

Thank you for many lovely emails recently, always a treat to receive news. Several of you say you read the blog over your breakfast so I have not included one of the photos of Harry's very exciting catch this morning despite Harry wanting me to include it!

We were up and out just after light this morning to catch spring low tide in the Bayona town beach. Harry and Isabelle did lots of digging for ragworms and lugworms and were very successful; we returned to TC with an absolutely disgusting haul for fishing with later. Fortunately Bol did the honours of putting the worms onto the hooks until Harry got the hang of it. Then the only one to catch a fish was Bol, but we threw it back in as it wasn't a big one.

Moving swiftly onto nicer things, dolphins came by the boat which was a lovely surprise after a morning of rain and wind. Then an expedition ashore to a huge Carrefour supermarket provisioning potentially to include the offshore trip to Madeira (700 miles from here) should conditions allow, although Lisbon is 230 miles away so we may head there first. As always, keeping options open.

Two more days of unpleasant weather are forecast, then hopefully conditions will improve.
Unfortunately more bait digging planned for first thing in the morning.




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