I got up early in Caleta de Vélez and headed out for a morning walk. Me and lots of others but the social distance measures here are extensive with a one way system along the paseo (which amazingly people really adhere to). There is also a path created along the beach of compacted sand where it is easy to walk/run – doubling the capacity of the pedestrian area. The architecture here is interesting too – there are new tower blocks in amongst the original cottages and even some older style beach huts which you don’t see a lot here.
Once again it was a gentle day at sea, we made very good time using our Genoa, mainsail and motor for the first couple of hours. It sounds odd to say that we had both sails out and the engine running but on this occasion the combination worked to push us along really well until the wind dropped entirely and we ended up taking both sails in.
We arrived in Benalmádena around 2pm and enjoyed a relaxing afternoon aboard watching the comings and goings of a different marina.
We are now on the Costa del Sol and it is still really warm here. The next morning I was up early again heading out for my walk. I was out with the cleaning crews and sporty people once again. There are two paseos (seaside walks) from this marina, the first one was closed for cleaning so I walked in the other direction and found lots of beach front hotels, restaurants and bars and barbecue restaurants on the beach too. They seem to offer a speciality “fish on a stick” dish, perhaps we should try it sometime. The sunrise as I came back was beautiful.
We had a really exciting day because we went to visit Judith and Poppy’s new yacht…..we are so happy for them both to be back on the water and berthed in this marina too. We spent a happy morning talking boats (and buying flags and assorted other bits in the chandlery). Now for an afternoon relaxing…..
The Adventures of Gemini J 