Hola,
Before I write about La Coruña, which is an exceedingly charming place! I want to just share some of the bright spots or our passage. They were few and far between, but they were there. I definitely think some higher power created rainbows because they really do lift your spirit after stormy weather as clichéd and hackneyed as that sounds. (Yes I do know there’s a scientific explanation, but when you’re in the middle of the ocean science isn’t so consoling as a rainbow.) And dolphins, playful creatures who come to visit and entertain with their dives and twirls when you need something to make you smile.
Now we’re back to reality and the security of a marina for the time being. And speaking of reality, it rains in the summer? I can’t remember the last time we had rain in the summer. Our past years in Turkey, North Cyprus, Israel and Tunisia, when the rain stops for the summer months, it STOPS! Every day is a laundry day. No problem with motorbike travel. Not no more! I had to use the marina dryer this afternoon because an early evening shower came along. I’d hung laundry out about 4 pm which seems late, but the sun (usually) shines until 10 pm. Not today. Tomorrow either as thunderstorms are forecasted. “Passing strange!” to quote Othello (which means stranger than strange) but I’m reading The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown and there are lots of references to Shakespeare. Anyway, here are a few photos from the bright spots of the passage.
And from those who shared sea sick stories, here’s some advice from my cousin Ernest; "never eat nothing before embarking on a boat". And this from New Bedford friend Beth’s commercial fisherman cousin…” just eat crackers and avoid fluids.”
Ru
The bright spots in our passage to La Coruña: some of the bright spots being Randal’s ability to fix what needed fixing for us to make it to La Coruῆa.
Lots of visits from dolphins! |
A beautiful sunset |
An amazing rainbow with absolutely every color! |
The lovely calm Camarinas where we rested after 4 awful days… |
You could have been in Maine with the smell of pine forest across the way on the other side of the bay. We never visited the town, no time for that with all of the repairs that Randal needed to do. I repacked cupboards so things would stop crashing around. I’d thought I’d packed them well enough, but we just rolled so much that I need to do better next time. And I even cooked us a real dinner that we could actually eat and keep down! |
Randal up on the flybridge fixing the GPS |
The autopilot pump is under the bed in our cabin |
Randal under the bed in the back cabin fixing the autopilot pump |
Randal changing fuel filters in the engine room |