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| Last day on the brach at Agua Dulce! |
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| Sailing once again. |
On Sat the 23rd we set sail from
from Agua Dulce to Almerimar a short trip of about 18 miles just to check if
everything is working and to stop at the big chandlery there. The sail went fine we had our new main sail
up and it seems to be very good we were bombing along at 8 knots for a while
until we had to change course to go down wind and the wind died.
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| Little monkeys |
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| The coast of the Almeria region is entirely full of these polythene covered growing areas, Kaylee thought it was snow from a distance! |
We arrived in Almerimar in the afternoon
and soon got tied up and very quickly realized we were glad never to have
wintered there! It is a huge harbour for
over 1000 boats but it is a very artificial town just full of waterside cafes
and bars. For example for the next few
hours we couldn’t escape the sound of the pub singer singing very cheesy songs
fairly badly to a really enthusiastic crowd of Brits who were up dancing, need
I say more!
That night is was the festival of San Juan
which is a celebration of the longest day of the year. Basically the whole Spanish coast is lined
with huge bonfires and nearly all the locals were out in huge family groups
having barbeques and swimming then coming to the fires to dry off. To add to that Spain were playing football
against France and won so there were lots of bangers and fireworks going off
all over the place. Someone did tell us
that there would be people jumping over the fires but it hadn’t started by when
we left at 1am. It was another example
of how the Spanish like to party, large family groups, lots of lovely food and
not half as much alcohol as we would have had at home!
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| As always my photographic skills don't do the atmosphere justice at all! |
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