DON'T THINK YOU WILL GET OFF THAT EASILY, I WILL BE BACK!
We are just checking systems and carrying out the routine repairs before we go on the next leg of our adventure. Tristan has serviced the bilge pump, again, and I am applying yet more coats of varnish, again.....the usual! Tristan fitted the AIS after a lot of cursing and two aerials later, but we can now find out which boats are on a collision course with us!
We have started provisioning the boat (yet again) for the crossing and had planned to sail down to La Gomera to pick up Kela, Tristan's sister. The usual happened, winds went contrary and it looked like we were going to have southerlies for the next week.
Kela stayed on the ferry and has joined us on La Palma for the week.
Today, just as we'd started to walk up the cliff face in Puerto Tazacorte to Mirador del Time, the winds started gusting from the south liberating their Sahara dust. It was challenging enough going up (well for me, not tigger Radleigh-Smith), and was also difficult to breathe but then walked down again!
The one thing I should mention about my wonderful sister-in-law, is that she eats anything growing wild. The trees in the park have been shook, and the black berries eaten. The prickly pears....well what can I say.
'Now when you pick a pawpaw
Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw
Next time beware
Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw
But you don't need to use the claw
When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw'
I am not sure what we will be eating later on this week but if the blog ends here, you know we shouldn't have been!
We have started provisioning the boat (yet again) for the crossing and had planned to sail down to La Gomera to pick up Kela, Tristan's sister. The usual happened, winds went contrary and it looked like we were going to have southerlies for the next week.
Kela stayed on the ferry and has joined us on La Palma for the week.
Today, just as we'd started to walk up the cliff face in Puerto Tazacorte to Mirador del Time, the winds started gusting from the south liberating their Sahara dust. It was challenging enough going up (well for me, not tigger Radleigh-Smith), and was also difficult to breathe but then walked down again!
The one thing I should mention about my wonderful sister-in-law, is that she eats anything growing wild. The trees in the park have been shook, and the black berries eaten. The prickly pears....well what can I say.
'Now when you pick a pawpaw
Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw
Next time beware
Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw
But you don't need to use the claw
When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw'
I am not sure what we will be eating later on this week but if the blog ends here, you know we shouldn't have been!
'Have I given you a clue ?'
