Leaving Barcelona

Relaunched Sephina just after midday on Friday May 3rd and sailed to La Balis about 20 M East of Barcelona. We arrived at 5.30 and tied up to the fuel dock for the night. A nice sail all the way and all systems going fine on Sephina. We will do some short day sails over the next week or so to get our sea legs back.

next day off to Palamos, 32 M east. Unfortunately no wind so we motored most of the way. Lots of sealife and not many other boats out even though its Saturday, it’s not really Summer yet. What we did see was Tuna, LOTS of tuna ! schools of tuna swimming past and lots of birds following in their wake. At first I thought they were dolphins, they were HUGE! We had the fishing line out but just with small lures. I didn’t really want to catch a Tuna today because we would be eating tuna for a month by the size of them. When we pulled the lures in one was missing half of it. I guess maybe a tuna took a bite at it anyway..

We tied up in Palamos at 1730 for the night

The town is a major port with one of the last remaining fishing fleets on this part of the Mediterranean coast. It is famous for the locally caught prawns (gambas) We are going out now to try some (Jenijane’s favourite ! )

oolala we just got back from dinner…the gambas didnlt have a price on the menu but we ordered it anyway, 45 euros for 8 prawns ! waaaaa

We will head to La Startit tomorrow morning. Another short sail of about 16 M

L’Estartit was a nice warm stoppover and a chance to practce our Mediterranean mooring skills again, catch up with some laundry and go for a bike ride around the town. 62 euro a night so we left the next day and headed to France. Beutiful day and flat seas, we motored mostly but managed a lazy 10K downwind sail at the end to arrive in Canet en Roussilon for a night or 2. They charged us 36 euro here because they didn’t (forgot) to multiply the rate x 1.5 for catamarans. We are planning to head to Sete for a couple of days and then on to Camargue for some horse riding and later to the Calanques for some anchoring.