Calm Anchorages & Lakavinotintoitis
03 September 2017 | Playa de Trinanes, Ria Arousa, Galicia, Spain
KW
We're on the move! Yesterday was spent exploring the Ria de Arousa, which is almost entirely covered by a patchwork of mussel rafts - easy enough to thread your way through the grid in practice, but a bit daunting on the charts. Lots of lovely quiet bays and beaches, ringed by hills and small towns. We found ourselves a 3m beach anchorage sheltered by reefs in the north-west of the Ria. The only other two boats there left within a few minutes of our arrival so we had the place to ourselves, for a quiet, flat calm evening - particularly quiet as we found we had run out of red wine (guess that creates a shopping opportunity). Good holding, but in the stinkiest slimiest weediest mud ever. G had a bracing swim in the morning, K obviously didn't.
We are now off to the Isla Ons, one of the National Park islands and 10 miles south. These are restricted access so we had to get visiting and anchoring permits online (a good vocab builder). After yesterday's brilliant sunshine we are now overcast with lightish wind on the nose, but hey ho, we are still in shorts.
Update: Signed off just now, then went on deck to find that ‘overcast’ had turned to ‘fog’ and that ‘shorts’ had to give way to ‘long trousers and a woolly hat’. Serves me right.