LinoCat

Since the sun was putting the mountains at the anchorage in beautiful sunlight at sunset were decided to go for a swim and shoot some pictures. This was the last night at Valle Gran Rey.

You feel a little bit like a hippie anchoring here. There is no real urge to move forward or do anything specific. You enjoy the sun, swim, dozing in the shade, sun bathing, eating and drinking. Playing cards in the evening and go to bed early. So why move on? Anyway we started to think about either San Sebastian or go back to Tenerife to the other side of the island maybe. my parents stay almost another week so there is still plenty of time left. Today i snorkeled to the beach and where it is rocky there are some fishes. I was in the middle of some sardines and they enjoyed swimming around me. I was wondering if these were hippie sardines searching for something to smoke near the beach. There is a kind of finca like farm which once was an Osho ashram, so we almost felt like back in Pune. The solarpanels have already generated 120Ah of power and we used that to poduce around 100liter of freshwater and to recharge the batteries. Yesterday we went to a restaurant called Trasmallo and had...

A nice sunset next to the end of the pier which can be seen from our anchorage.

Hi, i met the boat owner of the sunken yacht and he was trying to salvage the boat yesterday. It looks like it sunk through an existing through hull on Monday night. They had one 4 ton liftbag and a few 1ton bags. The problem is to fix them low enough to provide enough lift to bring the boat to the surface so you can pump out with a fast pump. Yesterday it was not successful but today they will do another try. Here are some snaps. Check how the stuff is floating around inside the boat. Cleaning will be a lot of work. Thanks good there was not a lot of Diesel in the tank and it is a steel boat. So renewing electrics and redoing the engine should be all that is needed. The boat has around 4 tons and i guess that at least 4 4ton bags would be required fixed with heavy duty transportation belts at a very low point.

Just wanted to share this snap with you because i like the colors.

Here some snaps from today morning when we used the rubber boat to go to the village and do some shopping and walking around.Valle Gran Rey used to be THE Hippie hangout in the 70s and 80s and has preserved at least some of that flair.

When we approached the anchorage there was a fender used as a marker bouy and i could see a white spot. When we all went swimming later i had the mask with me to check the anchor and so i also swam to that white spot and it was a fresh sunken yacht. Maybe around 8-10m long, the name is "Duck" and the port of registration Freiburg. So it was a german sailboat. I could see the spinnaker pole and lifevests and other stuff, so it was not emptied by anyone. Of course i am now curious to know what happened. I will investigate :-) Check out the pictures.

We are anchoring at La Gomera. The bay is on the south west part of the island and so it should be well protected in the prevailing north east winds. There is a small fishing harbour and a smaller ferry is connecting it to San Sebastian. The anchor ground is black gravel and under water visibility around 25m. When we dropped anchor at 17.30 yesterday i could clearly see it laying on the ground. There are around 5-7 other yachts anchoring here and the wind is around 1-2 and only a slight swell. very good anchor conditions. The 30kg Buegelanchor is holding very well. depth around 9m and we have around 35m-40m chain out. We are anchoring directly beneath huge rocks so the scenery is beautiful. We might stay 2 or more days. There is no internet or phone coverage out there so i am typing this in the harbour since with HF somehow blogger does not accept my picture attachments.