Corralejo, Fuerteventura

Well if the day before was a people watching day, then yesterday was a boat watching day. We are moored on the visitor’s pontoon here in Corralejo, the other side of which is used for the day tripper boats going to Isla de Lobos. There were two 75ft catamarans and a local ferry boat taking passengers across which arrived by the coach load. The “Catalanza” catamaran is moored at Puerto Calero and we had seen the two brand new airbrushed coaches which service it there, apparently it does the Isla Lobos route 2 times a week, we saw it do two 4 hours runs, with 50 then 40 passengers at 50 Euros a head, not bad business – Kevin was calculating this away each time they disembarked!


Corralejo

It was a fairly leisurely day; Kevin was busy on boat jobs, readying the kedge (secondary anchor) and a large rope for mooring buoys. I spent the day trying to perfect the long awaited dolphin video, which with any luck should have been posted with this update. Finally it was a quiet evening reading books with a glass of wine. I love reading and it is great to finally get to pick a book up for more than a couple of pages. Kevin has finally had time to start his Patrick O’Brien series (made into the “Master & Commander” film with Russell Crowe) which he is really enjoying, having already made it through the first in the series – “Master & Commander” and started on “Post Captain”. They are full of battles on the high seas and derring do, very popular with sailors – Bill moored beside us had the complete set on his bookshelf too.
We have decided to stay a couple more days at Corralejo until Monday when we will head to Porto Naos near Arrecife to pick up some boat bits Kevin wants to rig a better solution for our Spifurl as there appear to be few chandlers elsewhere. My parents are coming out to their villa at Playa Blanca on Friday next week, so we are staying in the area of Lanzarote to see them.