Standing on a Pillar of Hercules

Looking across the Straits to the southern Pillar of Hercules ( Ceuta) with the Riff Mountains beyond.

Other points  of interest at the southerly tip of Gibraltar:

The Ibrahim al Ibrahim Mosque faces south towards Morocco.

Panning to the West a few degrees...

The tower of Our Lady of the Shrine of Europe...On this visit we also saw several boys and men wearing the yarmulke - they are mostly Separdi Jews in Gibraltar - and a guy walking along with two sulphur crested cockatoos on his shoulders.

These grow in profusion here - we'll have interesting salads!

We walked from our mooring to Europa point in less than an hour. On the way we had our first sighting of the Barbary apes - sitting sunning themselves on a balcony of the most expensive hotel in Gibraltar!

My zoom is not good but you should be able to enlarge this pic - the adults are the pair sitting to the left  of the balcony;  if you look carefully the baby is to the left of them again just beyond the separating wall - getting some quiet time :O)

 

 

Back Onboard

After two months away we're back onboard. Greg sorted the Savignon Blanc...

I worked the bread dough ...

 Voila!  Fresh Breakfast bread :O)

We're back on our Seabbatical :O)

Recently discovered this photo of us sailing from Falmouth to Fowey two summers ago - not sure who to credit with the image, thank you whoever you are!

Snowy England January 2013

 Here's the snowy view I had one day in England.

Fixing Insulation on refrigerator compressor

We are in warm climes in spite of the current 'wet spell' here in Gib. Locals assure me that winter here is sunny so fingers crossed. Greg thought the weather had turned for the worse because he woke up complaining that his feet were really cold. The temperature inside the boat ( without any heating ) is 23 degrees. Just a little investigation and the mystery was solved:

The compressor coils leading to the fridge were iced to about 2inches in diametre - little wonder Greg's feet were cold because the coils are beneath his bunk!

An hour later and there are the coils!  Greg had found some offcuts of insulating foam at the boatyard and brought them back...

Voila! Coils nicely insulated and Greg's pinkies are pink again - RESULT :O)

Cannot let today pass - it's three months since we left Fowey!

It's three months exactly since we left Fowey. We arrived in Falmouth harbour at 10.30pm on the 3rd August 2012 to a grand firework display :O)

We have travelled 1,347 nautical miles from Fowey to Gibraltar. The equivalent of 1,550 land miles or 2,495 kilometres by sea. That's cause for a small celebration I think as we have travelled without incident and our boat has performed beautifully all the way. We will spend some time over the next week or so servicing the Volvo Penta engine that has been just as reliable as Lerryn Lady and the rest of the season making ready to set sail again in the Spring. We hope to install solar panels so that we can get off the grid and anchor without worrying about power supply - no shortage of solar 'rays' in the Med methinks.
            We will make the most our our time in Gibraltar in the meantime. We are expecting our eldest daughter to join us for Christmas and have another friend coming to visit in January.  We would very much love to see all of you here if you feel you can come over. Here's two links for possibly the cheapest and nicest B&B in Gibraltar and it's only 20 metres from our berth:
 http://www.tripadvisor.es/Hotel_Review-g187510-d1591107-Reviews-Con_Dios-Gibraltar.html

http://www.gibraltarbedandbreakfast.com/condiosco/contact-us/

I went to check it out last week, it's lovely accommodation - and they promise never to untie the lines from the moorings!

This Blog will be kept up to date over the coming months and I hope you will find our predominantly land based antics interesting as well ;O)

Greg has chilled an Oyster Bay Savignon Blanc so here's to us, here's to Lerryn Lady and here's to you for following us!  According to Blogspot Stats we've had 2,743 hits on Sailaway since leaving Falmouth - THANK YOU!


               
 

This quote found me today :O)

“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths, just a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anaïs Nin

    

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