Almerimar to Garrucha

Zulu
Mike West
Sat 14 Mar 2015 18:22
 
 
 
14/3/15
37:11N 01:49.1w
 
Today, we set sail to Garrucha, an island round the tip of Spain. The first bit of the trip was calm, warm and sunny. At 9 am two hours after we had had breakfast, we saw A pod of dolphins, not just a few, but millions! They were visible for about ten minutes, which was awesome! Like last time it wasn’t the first time we saw a pod of them. After a few more hours we saw another pod of dolphins, there were only two dolphins this time. All the dolphins we saw were common dolphins.
 
At two pm after lunch we had past our first way point and we had also passed the tip of Spain, we also only had 29 miles to go. We were nearly there when Harry and I had to have a maths lesson, this lasted two hours. When we only had 2 miles till we arrived in the marina, it got REALLY stormy, whilst it was stormy Harry and I had to make Mothers day cards, it was soooo stormy that if one of my pens or pencils fell on the floor, a task like picking them up with out falling over was IMPOSSIBLE!
 
When we had finished our cards, Harry was sick again, so he had to steer and help Dad with all the sailing. Whilst Harry was doing this it started to rain heavily so Catrin and I watched a  movie on Mum’s I-pad, after two movies we arrived in the marina. The pontoons in the marina were covered in bird poo! I had never seen so much bird poo in my life It was disgusting!
 
When we had tidied the boat up it was six o’ clock, time for tea, we had pasta. After we had eaten tea we watched half of Madagascar, then we went to bed  and read our books, I am now on my sixth book! After we had read our books we went to bed at eight pm.
 
Written by Katie