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When approaching San Sebastian, La Gomera marina, be aware that there is a dedicated channel in the harbor for pleasure crafts to keep the ferry traffic undisturbed. Many people think the yellow markers are for the swimming area but you have to be between the two yellow markers. The outer ones, the one to the ferry are even lit at night. Check the yacht on the picture, thats how it should be. Call them on channel 9 and they might directly assign a berth to you. The marina does not have to much swell besided the reception Pontoon F, where we are currently docked :-)

We rented a car and drove to the Garajonay National Park. There are so many nice hiking trails it is just amazing. We picked a very short one and followed it to a small river and a chapel. The trees and colors are great and it is quite cold, around 20 Celcius.

I had my first spanish lover and how should i say, i was a bit overwhelmed. First i hugged him and he shrugegd away then he approached me and then i was a bit scared. I fell and gentlemen like he helped me a up. Well, he pulled me up on my neck later but that is not shown in the pictures. After a while i decided to spend the next years rather with Mami instead of a spanish lover!

From here Christopher Columbus started to his journey which was supposed to lead to India but ended up discovering America. In this tax house goods were locked up until tax was paid. From this well Columbus filled up his drinking water supply it is said. So for a sailor this city might be a "must visit" :-) especially since we will most likely all follow the old trade wind routes which even Columbus has used. The rule of thumb from here is: Sail south untl the butter melts then turn west. And in this church it is said that Columbus spoke a final prayer before leaving for his voyage

Yesterday we have met the species "anchor specialist". When we came back from a tour in the village a german sailing boat was anchoring very close to us. I thought maybe they are here for the daytime only on so i did not bother to say anything. At around 22:00 in the evening the wind changed direction and we were moving in their direction. I asked them how much chain they have out and the skipper replied: I dont know, we have everything out. A skipper who does not know how much chain he got? And did not bother to know how much is out? I told him that we have 35m out and that we might get to close. Usually the skipper who came last is the one to move. We suddenly even had to start engines and move away when the wind was picking up to 20 knots. I asked him if he can move and the reply was: "Thats difficult, we have also moored into an old chain on the sea bed". I was puzzled. They had all anchor change out AND moored into an unknown chain? So after observing it for 30...

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.