The suspension bridge between Portugal and Spain
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Frances looking cool before we drank the wine!
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Fishing boats at Ayamonte
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Ayamonte from Vila Real. Ayamonte is the westernmost resort in Andalucia.
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Isn't she cute, some friends have a new pup called Baloo. The vet thinks she could keep the blue eyes
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I do have friends see, I know he / she is only after some grub.
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Some of the local wildlife
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Warrior on the pontoon - water and electricity for £7.00 per night. Getting a little chillier now and having to put some heating on first thing. What did I say in my earlier bloggs not needing the hot air heating - woops, I do now. It starts to warm up about 11ish and by mid afternoon back in tee shirt and shorts till 8ish.
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Early morning back at Larengeras
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A little bit of excitement on Thursday night, at about 1am I was woken as the anchor started to drag, on investigation I found a small tree that had floated up river had attached itself to the anchor chain. I had to get a rope around it and with some effort I got it unattached and Warrior came to a stop about 200 yards up river, no problem and I went back to bed. In the morning I re-anchored, then the wind started, 26-knots at times with absolutely torrential rain which lasted on and off the whole of Friday. When the rain stopped I went on deck to have a look around and found that the dingy had flipped over with the outboard attached. As I was struggling to get it back over some friends from a yacht up river came by and gave me a hand. Got the outboard on-board and after some remedial work and a liberal quantity of WD40 it was working again with no ill effects, thanks WD.
On Saturday another Warrior 'Nobel Warrior' (different size 38 feet), was heading up river to Pomarao about 7 miles and as it's a little tricky first time I asked if I could tag along. In the end there were 4 yachts representing America, New Zealand, another from the UK and our leader from Ireland. In its heyday Pomarao was a very busy mining town with some sizable ships coming to load oar. There are still the remains of the industry notably 7 tunnels that took the trains from the mines to the river port. On Sunday we walked these tunnels and got very wet as it bucketed down when we were between two of them but we dried out when the sun reappeared. After getting back and recovering we all went for a meal at one of the two restaurants, barbequed chops salad and chips washed down with a large quantity of red wine all for £10. Monday morning we headed back down to Alcoutim.
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A misty morning at Pomarao
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The tunnel walk
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Early morning with 'Nobel Warrior' at anchor at Pomarao
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Pomarao
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Just another quiet night on the Guadiana ....
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Just another quiet night on the Guadiana - they even tried to get me to sing!!
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See I do get in the water sometimes!
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Looking across the Guadiana from Sanlucar Spain to Alcoutim and Portugal
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Gail when she visited
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Just much too hot - not coming out in August or early September next year apparently most sensible people go to cooler climes till late September.
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The former owner Nigel working in the engine compartment fitting the new gear box, after spending a number of hours down there he named it 'the hole' - thanks Nigel.
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Natural sandstone sculptures in the bay Las Gaviotas
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