Tuesday 6th August
Lovely sunny day today so set off on the ebb tide for
Coverack, wind took a while to set in but by late morning it was blowing a
steady F2 from the south west and we had a lovely sail along the coast inside
the Manacle Reef and down to Coverack spotting a pair of Harbour Porpoise on
the way off the back of the boat and small flocks of Manx Shearwater and
Gannets.
Beached the boats on the sand, rolling them up to just above
the low water mark then went for a coffee and ice cream, they had sold out of
pasties!
Nice sail back in the sun and set the spinnaker for a while,
about 14 miles in all.
Wednesday 7th
Last day for sailing today, Doug and Jude set off in the
morning and motored over to Falmouth to revisit his old haunts whilst Viv and Joanna
went to get more fish for dinner and Ian and I went for a walk on the Lizard. I
was hoping to see a Chough but none about, we did see a really obliging young
male Kestrel who posed close up for snaps and spotted a large Basking Shark in
the bay under the coffee shop. We could have paid for our coffees if we had
charged people for the loan of our binoculars to see the shark. There was also
a lone seal in the same bay for a while.
Came back and had a gentle sail round to Helford to the
Shipley Arms again where we were met Doug and Jude. Sailed back out of the
bay under spinnaker but had to motor the last bit back to the beach where we
pulled out ready to de-rig for going home.
Fresh Mackerel and Pollack on the bar-b-q for tea.
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