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We have left Puerto Calero and are back on anchor - it feels lovely! We are in a bay at the south of Lanzarote, heading to 'wolf island' tomorrow to anchor for a couple of days before heading to Las Palmas.
My Mum and Roy have just left, and Roger and Lenka have just arrived. It was lovely to see granny and grandroy, and spend some time with them, although the weather was a bit of a disappointment! It has not been very warm, and quite windy, but warmer than it is in the UK we hear.
Lanzarote has some interesting things to do - Ellen and Annathouroughly enjoyed a camel ride - they called the camel suitika di camela - or camela for short. We all got on one camel, a big mean one, and trudged up a hill and back. We also went to a whale and dolphin museum and got to hold real baleen plates, and went to a volcano visitor centre which gave Ellen some bad dreams. Within 2 days of each other Ellen and Anna both managed to fall in the sea for the first time - very quickly followed by me each time - and were brought back out very fast and efficiently if I do say so myself! Neither suffered much (other than the obligatory washing afterwards) and caution now reigns again.
The volcanic landscape was impressive but I am longing for some trees now!
Both Ellen and Anna have fallen in the sea in the last few days (very very closely follwed by me!)
The two weeks in a marina were not cheap, more so as we got lots of work done. We are now the proud owners of a second autohelm (Raymarine no less), a custom made emergency tiller, a patched and ready to go mainsail, and two new Lewmar hatches which Roger and Lenka brought out for us (we call them the mules). Hopefully we are ready to go (almost). We have a few more bits to buy which we will try and find in Las Palmas (where we hope the chandlery is better) and then (when we drop off Roger and Lenka and send them back to earn more dosh to buy their own boat) we will pick Gerard up from Tenerife and head south, as long as nothing else breaks.
……………………………………………………………………… We are now in Las Palmas! We had an uneventful journey here - a couple of ships passed quite close, Double Helix sailed very nicely and the new autohelm worked! We arrived at about 3 this morning, and after a lovely lunch (thanks Roger) - John is out hunting hydraulic fluid, Roger and Lenka are in bed, and me and the girls are playing! There is no wifi here so hopefully I will manage to post this in the next few days, before we head off to Tenerife.
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