Sunday afternoon and we are still in Portosin marina. The wind is blowing a hooly (F6-7) but we are nicely tucked up in the back of the marina (as we are staying a couple of weeks). Most of the visitors are on the outer pontoons and bucking up and down - in a very similar manner to Port Edgar in an northerly F6. Not a lot of time to spend blogging as we have been on the beach, in the bar, on the beach and back in the bar. Probably spend a bit more time putting more on the site when the lads leave for Santiago tomorrow. We will then be back to two on board.
Above is a pic of us going round the Cape of Death. Well at least it was taken from our boat, we are not the boat way inshore. F6 - downwind sail - magic!
I said in the last post that Portosin was a great marina. I'm still going to give the award to Kilmore Quay on the basis of better "Craic" but this is not far off. I mean ....were do you get facilities like this.......
......and they don't do pie, beans and chips. Just Calamari and pulpo (that's octupus for the linguistically challenged - er, me!) for about the same price. Despite the wind, it's been 25 deg C + all the time so we have been very dependent on the cold Estrella Galicia, the Spanish answer to Guinness. Rob's trying to work out how much he can take back on the plane.
I tried to get Rob to do a guest blog for the day but he refused point blank. So you will have to settle for me. Yesterday, Saturday, Pam and I caught a bus into Noya which is the nearest city about 15 mins bus ride away. Nice old town with lots of history. Given our complete lack of knowledge of the local lingo, we managed a huge mid-day meal with drinks for only 22 Euros - obviously a communication problem as we ended up with at least 2 dishes we didnt think we ordered! Great food.
Back at base, we ended up in the club house with another Estrella or three watching the sun go down.
I guess this is what Port Edgar will be like once they complete the development.
Rob's still heavily into monitoring the various species of bird life. He has seen 43 species this trip which includes 8 or 9 all time new ones - so that means 8 or 9 all time new ones for me. He is now very actively looking for the family Sulidae. There were none on the beach today. I will have to keep looking when Rob returns and update you all on progress.
Tomorrow Rob and Tom are going into Santiago so they can catch their early plan back to the UK on Tuesday. Pam and I are planning to go in with them to get a day to look around before our flight back on Thursday. We will then have another couple of days of beach and bar. We do keep thinking about the poor people who have to go to work each day. Well not that much. Task for the next couple of days is to get the Spanish phrase book out and learn some!!!! Back with more news tomorrow.
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