Sonntag, 17. Juli 2011

Tenerife to Gomera

While on land the southern part of Tenerife may look a bit dull, the view from its Southeast end is one of the nicest, with dark craters in the foreground and highland and Pico Teide in the hazy back.

Leaving marina San Miguel, there is still wind bending around the south of the island, but not for long, when during the summer trade wind period one quickly ends up in the shade of the big mountains. This generally means motoring for most of the way to Gomera. But certainly not all the way, since what has been missing will be served in concentrated form about 5 miles from Gomera. The unaware may get caught by surprise, but we had watched this phenomena twice before and were prepared.

Unfortunately this doesn't stop in San Sebastian and so one has to settle with a rather wind swept marina there, falling not much short of Cape Town. It means no sun canvas allowed and plenty of dirt blown over the boats from the streets of the otherwise rather nice little town.

It is the place where already Columbus left for his his journey to the West Indies and one can still see that it was quite a good anchorage and good place to stock up one last time. The windy corner is really more in the norther part of the bay, where now the marina is. Previously anchoring was more towards the south, where we also anchored with Aventura in 1972, before crossing the ocean.

Now this would be right in the harbor entrance off the south end of a huge breakwater, where today high speed ferries enter and leave several times a day.

Every island here is very different from the other and Gomera is no exception. We toured the island again for three days via rental car, and again find it rather special. Forests in the mountains, green valleys between rough cliffs, and a few nice little villages. In size it is not so big and so one can see most places in a few days.

Tomorrow, Monday July 18, we plan to leave San Sebastian and sail to the western side of the island, where we had always found a nice anchorage just off Valle Gran Rey.

The first picture is at the Southwest end of Tenerife, all others are somewhere around Gomera.t

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