Alcoutim
Thursdays Child
Robin & Joanna Minchin
Sun 22 Mar 2015 19:15
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37:28.056N 007:28.092W
This morning we ventured up the Vascao at low water and found a
totally different river to yesterday. It was fun to see rocks and
boulders now visible and fish leaping up out water and trying to go
up rapids that had also appeared. Harry paddled around not caring
that water was going over the top of his wellies, with shrimp net in
hand he could have stayed there hours. We spotted a few terrapins
and tried filming them with the underwater Gopro camera but sadly it
was too murky to see far enough. We did get close to one as he was
sunning himself on a branch. Alcoutim/Sanlucar After some more scrambling around on the cliff face, the children getting more sure-footed and confident as the weeks go by, and one last visit to the Roman weir, well and truly out of the water with water rushing out and around both sides, we made sure we were back on TC and heading south on the last of the flood tide. We are now back in Alcoutim and will be here for a few days, restocking and sorting our trip north. Next Saturday there is a Fish Festival in Pomarao ~ we saw the beginnings of an enormous marquee being erected on the quayside and it sounds like an event not to be missed, so we will return to the Vascao and Pomaro towards the end of the week. "Peter Duck" has now been read from cover to cover, what a treat. High on the list of things to do tomorrow at the library is to download more Swallows & Amazons onto the kindles now that we are in the swing. Back to the donkeys and the clocks telling their different times. |