Tuesday 29 January 2013

Off to Las Calmas Sea

We have spent a month in La Gomera, the longest we have stayed anywhere so far on this trip.


 Lovely marina, beautiful blue skies, warm, friendly people and in spite of repairs to the boat, its been fun.




Our friends Nico and Chris and their beautiful  leather work, hand made on their beautiful Maurice Griffiths boat, Mew Gull.







We took a bus journey to Valle Gran Rey through the National Parc of Garajonay.









A huge area of subtropical rainforest was destroyed during the summer by fires.  I was quite shocked by the scale of devastation, and felt for the people whose homes were destroyed.

The palm trees looked a bit sorry for themselves but appeared to have coped with the fire better than the Laurel and pines.

Valle Gran Rey was very chilled out, has a  'secret beach' and feels and looks like a resort from the '70's, including many of the inhabitants, John Lennon look a likes.  It's escaped the development of many areas and oozes relaxation.







We have provisioned for over a month and its surprising Meriva is still afloat.





We are finally self sufficient...reminds me of the film about Hawaii..'Live life like you were in a canoe'.  It  is just as well as there appears to be very little from  here on for a while.

Later this evening we are off to El Hierro...  a trial sail to make sure everything  is OK...in the dark!

I've taken my stugeron ( I haven't sailed for over a month) and we are off to  La Restinga, the site of the major eruption 12 months ago in search of restingolites washed ashore from  Las Calmas Sea.

Lets hope the sea lives up to its name!