Monday 21 July 2008

The Mar Menor

Elaine and John's Villa


SATURDAY 20 JULY 2008

Roger and I still had our last two sea dives to do to gain our Open Water PADI qualification, so we canoed to the Dive School at Puerto de Tomas Maestre and then went in a rib with Mervyn and Eddy to the dive site between two islands. We dived to 18 metres and saw some beautiful fish and a moray eel who watched us from his crack in the rock and snapped his jaws!

We canoed back to the Susannah and sailed to Santiago de la Ribera on the other side of the Mar Menor. We canoed ashore and John came to collect us and take us to their lovely villa near Torremendo, which is in a remote area inland from Torrevieja.  We had met John and Elaine in Getaria last year.  About 60 people came to John and Elaine’s party where there was great dancing music and the food was superb. We went to bed about 1.15 a.m. leaving the party to wind down about 2.00 a.m. – early by Spanish standards where parties usually start about midnight and go on until 6.00 a.m.!

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