Sunday saw us depart Villajoiosa with the aim of getting to Torrevieja to see S/Y Chablis, who we had met in Porto Colom – all if the weather conditions permitted, we knew the wind and sea were against us but the forecast was for everything to be much calmer than the day before so we were fairly confident we´d make it. The sunrise was stunning.
The views as we departed were beautiful, the photos (without a decent camera!) can´t really do it justice.
We were very excited around 10am when the wind picked up and we were able to switch off the engine!! We had a fabulous sail passing other yachts….
…..for 10 minutes before the wind dropped and the sea picked up (forecast to happen around 13:00) so once again we found ourselves motoring into choppy seas. Thankfully around half an hour later the conditions died down and we had a fairly enjoyable (if slow) motor sail along the Alicante coastline. We looked again at the weather forecast and made the decision to make 2 more hops back home, returning to the same ports we started with in September. This meant that we couldn´t make Torrevieja (we will have to visit another day). We headed for our old favourite Santa Pola and arrived around 3pm in time for a nice rest before the next couple of days sailing. We always love it in this marina and were happy to be back. Nigel had caught a couple of fish on the way which we enjoyed for dinner.
(in our dreams, he´s been trying but with no luck so far! 😉 we had buffalo mozarella, prawn and tomato salad!)
The Adventures of Gemini J 