10 June 2012
I've been very remiss about posting so I'm going to do a pictorial catchup.
After the last post we noticed a boat lurking about the anchorage...
... and we had our first visit from Customs. If you stay in a marina, part of the arrival procedure is to present your Ship's Papers at the marina office where forms are filled out. There is no requirement to do that when at anchor (here anyway), but they there is a chance that you will be visited by the 'Aduarno' and the forms will be completed. I would have liked to get a picture of them on board but it didn't feel like the done thing.
Sunrise leaving Muros on Monday the 10th of June.
The sail itself wasn't particularly remarkable except that the sea was quite lumpy and the wind was quite light and pretty much directly behind us. The combination of the two meant that to sail comfortably, without there being too much rolling and slamming of the main, we tacked down wind.
You also sail faster on a reach than sailing directly downwind. This is an artist's (haha) representation so we might not have gone quite so far offshore but I didn't think to photograph the actual route before we shut down the plotter.
Once we got in behind the islands off Vigo, the swell disappeared and it got very pleasant indeed.
Off Baiona is a natural break water that very much needs to be avoided. There is a northerly entrance but we decided to take the southerly entrance as it's much wider and we haven't been there before.
It was quite spectacular and in the pic you can just see the navigation marker over the back of a swell. I expect there are a lot of the remains of ships littering the area around the reef.
Castillo de Monterreal . It's now a hotel so we didn't get a chance visit it.
We anchored the first night in the bay behind the castle. We went into the marina for the second and had a day for sightseeing.
The old parts of town are the prettiest.
I do like to check out who is baking what. Much of the 'cream' in the goodies was that brilliant white of something that's never seen a cow.
Just a street scene but I quite liked it.
Many of the buildings are decorated in tiles.
They're very impressive.
A view of the Castillo de Monterreal from the town.
Ice creams. I had a 'Rubi' which was a nugget of ice cream on a stick dipped in chocolate and nuts. It was VERY nice. It's the small round one hidden by the yellow triangles. I did not fancy the pink and yellow ones.
One of Baiona's claims to fame is that in fourteen hundred and ninety three, the Nina landed here after returning from the New World.
Once again this was a whistle stop tour and we didn't do the place justice. Tomorrow, the 8th of June We're headed for Portugal.
After the last post we noticed a boat lurking about the anchorage...
... and we had our first visit from Customs. If you stay in a marina, part of the arrival procedure is to present your Ship's Papers at the marina office where forms are filled out. There is no requirement to do that when at anchor (here anyway), but they there is a chance that you will be visited by the 'Aduarno' and the forms will be completed. I would have liked to get a picture of them on board but it didn't feel like the done thing.
Sunrise leaving Muros on Monday the 10th of June.
The sail itself wasn't particularly remarkable except that the sea was quite lumpy and the wind was quite light and pretty much directly behind us. The combination of the two meant that to sail comfortably, without there being too much rolling and slamming of the main, we tacked down wind.
You also sail faster on a reach than sailing directly downwind. This is an artist's (haha) representation so we might not have gone quite so far offshore but I didn't think to photograph the actual route before we shut down the plotter.
Once we got in behind the islands off Vigo, the swell disappeared and it got very pleasant indeed.
Off Baiona is a natural break water that very much needs to be avoided. There is a northerly entrance but we decided to take the southerly entrance as it's much wider and we haven't been there before.
It was quite spectacular and in the pic you can just see the navigation marker over the back of a swell. I expect there are a lot of the remains of ships littering the area around the reef.
Castillo de Monterreal . It's now a hotel so we didn't get a chance visit it.
We anchored the first night in the bay behind the castle. We went into the marina for the second and had a day for sightseeing.
The old parts of town are the prettiest.
I do like to check out who is baking what. Much of the 'cream' in the goodies was that brilliant white of something that's never seen a cow.
Just a street scene but I quite liked it.
Many of the buildings are decorated in tiles.
They're very impressive.
A view of the Castillo de Monterreal from the town.
Ice creams. I had a 'Rubi' which was a nugget of ice cream on a stick dipped in chocolate and nuts. It was VERY nice. It's the small round one hidden by the yellow triangles. I did not fancy the pink and yellow ones.
One of Baiona's claims to fame is that in fourteen hundred and ninety three, the Nina landed here after returning from the New World.
Once again this was a whistle stop tour and we didn't do the place justice. Tomorrow, the 8th of June We're headed for Portugal.
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