Daily Archives: Sunday September 4th, 2011

At anchor, Islas Cies

So we finally made it and sailed out of the Ria de Arosa. We just dropped our anchor here in a little bay at the Islas Cies, into 7,5m of atlantic water. I have no idea how the beach and the island looks like as it’s quite dark outside. Maybe I’ll tell you tomorrow…

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Quick, quick – rise ! We want to be the first ones !!

That – you’ll never hear on board of the Rancho Relaxo. We stay true to the name and sleep until the sun already is waaaay up and our solar panels are on 100% output. But shouldn’t we be on the Islas Cies ? I look outside, and I see plenty of other ships and a little town in the back… Hmm.

Ah, yeah. It went like this: The LosLocos were preparing to leave the harbour when we received an SMS from the SY Chiloe if we’d like to meet in a nice little bay not far… As the outlook for the night was not too favourable (wind gusts up to 7Bft) we decided to go for that bay and leave for the Islas tomorrow. Well, we had a little trouble to find our friends and when we finally arrived it was already too late to water the dinghy and row for the beach.
The weather report said something of NNW to W – winds. We actually got ENE wind and had to leave our little bay. – So we dropped the anchor in Caramiñal not far from where we spent the last days. The good thing about that: WLAN connection. Hehehe.

But now as the breakfast is over we’ll definately give it another try, sail back to that little bay and go for a swim (for me that would be the FIRST time during our journey). In the afternoon we’ll try to leave for the Islas Cies then. Maybe this time we’ll make it.

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