Last stop on mainland Spain - Moraira

Fixing fishing nets the old way.

Part of a massive Tuna sculpture on a roundabout.

Symbiosis at work - we moor they clean :O) bless em.

Moraira to east of us.

Moraira, no high rise and very quaint.

Pretty steps.

.Lerryn Lady on her mooring.

Perfect weather for a dip in the Med.

 

Lerryn Lady somewhere between Cartegena and Alicante last week

Photos taken by Graham Vatcher as he passed on his boat SY Obsession. We don't know Graham, but thanks for taking the pics!

 

 

Alfalfa sprouts...

Crisp and very munchable...

Who would guess something this delicate and this small could pack such a nutritional punch!

Be Careful What You Wish For...

Here's Greg waiting for some wind.

And then...

 

Made for a good sail close-hauled :O)

 

Storm

After mooring we noticed a change in the sky...perfect blue gave way to this amazing white light...

 Then this storm cloud turned up...

 Thunderstorm for half an hour all round us...

 Then calm and back to blue...

The masts and their reflections look like a trace pattern on an electrocardiogram - tracing the storm :O)

Mar Menor

In order to get into the Mar Menor from the Mediterranean you first have to negotiate your way into a small, shallow harbour basin, 3m deep at most with truly grounding shallows all round - eeeeek. We waited for twenty minutes in this basin steering into the wind broadside to maintain our position in 3m - there was nowhere else to go. The lifting bridge opens every two hours on the dot. The traffic came to a standstill on the road above us, dead on 4pm we edged forward into a small channel to pass through (could have held hands with anyone on the bank). Lerryn Lady was the only vessel to pass at 4pm :O) A few folk got out of their cars and bus to watch...

 

 

 

Alfalfa sprouts - FORGET HRT LADIES!

These little dudes are currently in my sprouting jar, no more than 2mm long at the moment  but see how they hold onto those water drops! I'll grow these on until they have a pair of leaves. Now get this for POWERHOUSE food: inside every little dude sprout will be:  Protein, Vitamin A, Naicin,Calcium, dietary fibre, Vitamin C, Vitmain K, Thiamin,Riboflavin, Folate, Vitamin B5 ( otherwise known as Panthothenic Acid on food labels), Iron, Magnesium, Phospherus, Zinc,Copper and Manganese. They are an amazing source of phytoestrogens STAY WITH ME LADIES - FORGET HRT alfalfa is useful as an agent to help fight menopausal symptoms, oesteoporosis, heart disease and cancer. Alfalfa has high antioxidant activity and will smack those free radicals into the next Universe. Add them to sandwiches.soups, salads and dips. I'll post a photo when they are about ready to eat :O)