The wind is constant between 15 and 20 nodes coming more or less from the Northeast. It's almost tailwind. Roughly 150 miles traveled every day. From time to time a small gust to 30 Nodes, Just to remind us to stay alert. Oh, yes, I was going to forget, two days ago…
We leave La Gomera without a “Wind fart” and a sea of oil. Only a few dolphins and our bow break this mirror. After about forty miles we arrive at El Hierro – the southernmost Canary Island. The top of the lava cliffs is in the clouds, which gives an aspect…
eh yes, That's it… we followed Steph's advice and caught our first fish. A sea bream… estimated at about ten kilos! Thank you Steph!
Arrival on Sunday at the marina of San Sebastián on the island of La Gomera. We don't waste any time and the next day we have to tinker with the boat , Filling water tanks, shopping ….Visiting the interior of the island is also our goal, We rent a car for 3 days. On the agenda of the marches in…
Whew! We left the “Crowds of tourists” in Los Cristianos. Here we are on the island of La Gomera where we anchor in front of La Playa de la Guancha (a few kilometres south of San Sebastian)… We are alone in the bay and find a landscape of arid hills – no road, step…
Facing the beach of Los Cristianos we entrench ourselves on Hibiscus… Regular dip, Philippe sorts the photos to put them on Google Picassa and Nathalie… makes bread. Whouaaa!!!! Like real!
The 30 September we decide to leave our bay of Antequera. We set sail and sail along the east coast of Tenerife towards the South… looking for the next anchorage as pleasant as the one we leave.
Departure from Santa Cruz by car….direction the Orotava Valley. The road is quite winding and offers us beautiful mountain landscapes. The temperature drops rapidly , from 27° we go to 14° degrees, as we get closer to Mount Teide which rises to 3718m….Grrrrrr…..
Change“total” of scenery when arriving in the marina of Santa Cruz….. Intense traffic of cargo ships and ferries that dump swarms of tourists every day…..A few days were enough for us to make some minor repairs on the boat…and finally within an hour we go back to sea. Direction the Baya de Antequera…..You remember the anchorage “perfect” from…