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| BBQ on the Rio Guadiano |
SATURDAY 26 APRIL 2008
We provisioned the boat in the nearby supermarket and had an excellent lunch at a restaurant near the Marina. We left Ayamonte about 2 p.m. and about a mile up the river we ran aground! (I was driving). We also had to go under the suspension bridge, which seemed very low. We motored up the Rio Guadiana with Portugal on the left and Spain on the right. The scenery was spectacular, with the occasional white house or small village on the river banks.
We provisioned the boat in the nearby supermarket and had an excellent lunch at a restaurant near the Marina. We left Ayamonte about 2 p.m. and about a mile up the river we ran aground! (I was driving). We also had to go under the suspension bridge, which seemed very low. We motored up the Rio Guadiana with Portugal on the left and Spain on the right. The scenery was spectacular, with the occasional white house or small village on the river banks.
Most yachts were anchored between Sanlucar de Guadiana (Spain) and Alcoutim (Portugal), where we saw John and Carol (Taio) and Pauline and Andy (Odile) about to anchor, and we hooted Verna and Anna (Sailaway) as we passed. We dropped anchor about 6 p.m. 2 miles south of Pomarao in a beautiful and peaceful spot, with only the sounds of birds. We saw a pair of brightly coloured bee-eaters on the Spanish side of the river. Bee-eaters have bright red and pale yellow upper parts with greenish wings, and are blue underneath.
It was a lovely warm evening so we had a BBQ – the first one since before we left the U.K!
WILDLIFE: Bee-eaters
It was a lovely warm evening so we had a BBQ – the first one since before we left the U.K!
WILDLIFE: Bee-eaters
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