It's 7.30 and the sun is just starting to come up. We're underway again and planning a 12-hour push to get further to Gib....
We had a good day's run and pretty hard to find an anchorage that's well sheltered from the swell that's rolling through. There's no wind...just swell that seems to be coming from the south or south east. We decided on Cabo de Pino because you can anchor near the marina entrance and thought the breakwater would protect us from the swell a bit. As it turned out there was no protection from the swell. So we anchored just before dusk, dropped the dinghy and took Milo for a run on the beach and when we returned, lifted the dinghy so we could take off for Gib early in the morning.
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17 October 2009, Cala Honda, southern Spain
It's getting a bit nippy now in the mornings and evenings getting down around 17 degrees, which isn't really cold but we've all pulled out the jumpers. During the days it's beautiful and still warm. We spent all day at the marina really. Sam did school. Ray did the washing while I cleaned and hung out the washing. We did a bit of a shop and generally pottered around. Ray's quite sick today but wants to head out anyway because he's worried we won't reach Gib before the south-westerly sets in. So at around 4pm we headed off again and we plan to anchor about 11pm at an anchorage down the way.
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We're on a mission to get to Gibraltar before a big blow that's coming from the south-west next Wednesday so we are pressing on. We lifted the anchor around 7am and headed off again. Sam did school while I pottered with meals and tidying the boat and catching up on some emails. Around lunch time the alarm on the VHF radio sounded. This is a function on most VHF's that allows you to press a 'Distress' button on the radio and, if it's linked into your GPS, it sends your position out on the airways. Cabo de Gata radio responded immediately with a message to all ships to look out for a boat in distress. The position was a good 60 nautical miles away toward Gibraltar so it wasn't one we could do anything with but throughout the day the distress call sounded several more times. Cabo de Gata radio was on it and in touch with other boats somewhere in the vicinity but we didn't get any details of what was going on except that the vessel had 'problems on board' but they did have a vessel only 10 nautical miles away that was on standby to respond. Not sure what the outcome was which is a little frustrating. Anyway, around 4pm we pulled in to Almerimar Marina, a fairly new, huge and great looking marina. Our jaws nearly dropped when they said our price for the night would be only 18.51 euros including power and water. We tied up stern to the dock, got ourselves settled and then headed out for Peking Duck (yes...very Spanish).
PS. Now we're all sick with this sinus cold...Ray's been the last to succumb.
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