We snuck out of Nazare in the early hours. The humans realized, in the morning light, that they had moored up in a private Marina on the wrong side of the port. How they got themselves backwards, I will never know? So they rushed me out early in the morning […]
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It has been a really crazy few days. It started and finished with some high winds. Over 35 knots. In the shallows of the lagoon we had nothing more then little wavelets that got you soaked on the dingy. We walked through the town into the Nature Reserve here in […]
I know we said we were staying in Porto until the strong winds died down ,but either the humans were too embarrassed to show me how rubbish their surfing is or, they got sick of sitting in rubbish. Leixoes is a big industrial port and with that commonly comes a […]
Yes, oops, is right. The silly humans. They got their high and low tides mixed up and should have left in the morning. The next high tide was not until the evening and you really do not want to be sailing down the coast at night. Fishing nets and pots […]
Well the day did start sedately. After a nice run in the park we all headed to the nearest cafe with some WiFi. The coffee is great in both Spain and Portugal but the batteries in the computers never seem to last long enough to get half the stuff we […]
Welcome to Portugal! We had a little ceremony at the boarder. My silly humans got out trumpeting instruments and noisily lowered the Spanish courtesy flag (a small flag of the country you are visiting hung on the starboard side below the first spreaders)and hoisted the Portuguese flag. We tried hailing […]