Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

All jobs now complete or as far as we think we can get to on this trip we are planning to head off a day earlier than planned to the south of the island. We are both keen to get out of the cloudy weather (still 28 degrees – can’t believe how spoiled we are already) and get to some clean water to go for a swim. We are heading to Puerto Mogan marina, which is supposed to be excellent, in fact Kevin has already visited by land a few years ago with Alex on holiday. We are booked in from tomorrow until Monday 21st when we will be heading to Tenerife to get ready to meet Alex & Sean who will be joining us on 24th July.
We have timed it really well for our visit to Puerto Mogan as on Sunday there will be the annual procession of The Virgin Mary the patron saint of fisherman from Arguineguin to Puerto Calero where it is taken out to sea on boats. I gather the celebrations last for the week and up to 5000 people attend the procession. It will be a great experience to be present for one of the local festivities, although I am sure it is not quite as it once was when the livelihoods were more dependent on fishing, I am still looking forward to the experience.
Today followed our fairly usually regime of a leisurely start (9.35am for me!) followed by a good breakfast and a cup of ground coffee. We did a bit of boat cleaning and maintenance which we like to keep on top off. I am enjoying a re-read of a Jane Austen whilst Kevin took his turn for a half hour of the trampolines when the sun came out.
After 2pm, we head to the marina to have a shower and pay our dues for the additional three days at anchor. We returned the key for shower for our 2 Euro deposit, rather annoyingly they would not return the deposit without the receipt provided at the time of issue. We had left this on the boat and despite the fact they had the other half of the receipt with our boat name on it they would not return the deposit, perhaps they were carefully guarding against us paying another boat’s bill? Anyway, we left them the key anyway as we want to get an early start tomorrow for our journey south.