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 […]
Portugal
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Yah, we know it is a lot short of Lisbon, but it was bumpy and horrible out there. We got trapped in the ‘Lemming Effect’. The ‘Lemming Effect’ of anchoring was explained in an earlier blog, but the ‘Lemming Effect’ of departures (from a perfectly safe and sound anchorage) is […]
The human’s are really rubbish at this sailing thing. They told me they were going to sail all the way to the anchorage at Cascais (just outside the harbour of Lisbon) and they didn’t. Eight hours of fiddling with the sails in light winds and rolly waves and they give […]
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 […]
Well they sent me out to sea again. South down the coast of Portugal from the fishing harbour of Peniche to the anchorage off of Cascais. I do not know if it was; the weight of all the canned goods they bought at LIDL’s, and stuffed in the […]
No We did not sail our boat inland…. We took the bus. We went to the VERY touristy town of Sintra in the mountains above the coast. No, I did not get to go this time, because dogs are not allowed on the bus. I got left behind on […]