This morning we started the last leg to Gibraltar at around 7am and expected to ride the outgoing tide. There are bizaare things going on in the water around the strait. Lots of eddies and counter-eddies so that the water looks really agitated. At some points we were doing six knots and others around 4.5 knots, all related to the tidal activity. We got into La Linea (next to Gibraltar) around 3pm. Phew...good to be here. We're going into Marina Bay marina tomorrow to spend a day or two while some nasty weather rolls through.
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I was having a look on a few friends travel blogs and I saw you wrote a log today!
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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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