Santa Cruz La Palma
Kahia
Paul and Catherine Davis
Thu 17 Nov 2011 15:28
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La Palma is the greenest of the Canary Islands with with
the worlds largest crater La Caldera Taburiente, 27 km in circumference and 763m
deep.
So we hired a car and went with our marina neighbour
Alan from 'Snow White' to the top above the cloud level. The first time we felt
the cold and had to wear jackets.
We made good use of the car to stock up at Hyper Dino
and were able to get the dive cylinder recharged by Miguel, a local police
officer.
Although we intended to leave earlier, we ended up
staying 5 days going through a list of jobs to do before heading to the Cape
Verde. The new Marina is the best set up of the entire trip so far. Lovely
showers, good laundry, excellent wifi connection and a beautiful town to visit
and stock up.
The only difficulty in all of the islands here, is to
refill our gaz bottles. We even went up to the local plant with our box of
international fittings with no success. It was cheaper to acquire a one ring
electric cooker perfect in the marina, helping us to save on our last bottle of
gas, which should be able to be refilled in the Cape Verdes. Today, we are still
working on Kahia, we found a problem with the Whitlock steering and ordered some
spares to be send out from England to Mindelo. So we hope to get away in the
next hours, about 800 NM to go.
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