Trekking
16 May 2010 | Alcoutim
We decided to grab our back-packs, the tent and the 'good old' Trangia' stove and go trekking these beautiful montains (OK; hills) this weekend. When I woke up, later than usual yesterday morning to make coffee, I noticed a well known neighbour boat about 15 meters astern from us. Took my sleepy mind a few seconds to realise that the same neighbour boat SHUOLD be at least 00 meter away...
Red alert!
We were dragging anchor. Yesterday afternoon the wind picked up quite a bit, and we were 'all-over-the place' while the tide and the wind fought a hard battle.
Apparently that was enough to break the anchor loose from the stony bottom and then we had slowly dragged with the outgoing tide during the night.
The coffee had to wait, I woke up Isabelle and we hastily moved the boat and reanchored. After breakfast we decided to tye up to the pontoon since we were to leave 'Röde Orm' more than a day.
Apart from this incident, we had a very nice trekking trip north from here. The landscape is quite stunning with all these hills, mostly with almond, fig-, and olive trees and every so often a little tributary river.
The only downside is that I get blisters all over my feet when I walk long distances and it's warm...
will be very stationary the next few days.
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