On Friday we headed ashore again to catch up on emails and upload some more photos on the blog. As we were finishing up some other Brits came in the internet place to get passport photos done for residency permits as they had just moved over to set up a property management company. I was Skyping my Dad, who has just got back from Lanzarote. Kevin got talking to them however and as seems to happen quite regularly they turned out to be from Leigh, near Wigan which is not far from where Kevin grew up. These Wiganers seems to be able to find each other wherever we go!
It was lunchtime by now so we took a seat in the Chillout bar to watch the world go by for a while before heading to Café Creole for lunch. I popped into the Ladies as Kevin was ordering only to return to find Kevin talking to another couple on the table next to ours. These people were not from Wigan however, Laura was from Ireland and Mark from Southern England. They are both over working for a property investment company; Mark has lived in Cape Verdes for 2 years and Laura for 18 months. It turned out it was Mark’s 40th the next day and we were invited along for his party someway up the coast the next night. Mark is also a freelance diving instructor and gave us some tips on dive sites as we mentioned that we hoped to go the following morning.
After all that socialising we returned to the boat to cool down with some snorkelling. First job was to check the anchor after all the heavy swell we had been having. We knew we had moved slightly back on the anchor but it seemed to have dug in again. We found when we dived down that our second anchor, a Danforth, was well held in and had obviously held us through the swell, whereas our troublesome CQR copy had pulled out again. Therefore Kevin donned the dive gear again to unshackle the Danforth so we could reset the CQR. We realised again the benefits of being able to dive and having the kit on board as without we would not have been able to rig the anchors in series as we have and without which with our ineffective CQR we would definitely have been dragged the night before. This job done and now both diving cylinders drained, we set about refilling cylinders ready for diving the next day.
We had dinner onboard again ready for an early start to beat the dive schools out to the dive site which is almost due south of where we are anchored. Apparently there is a 1930’s wreck now quite smashed but with a lots of life which is buoyed by the dive schools, so we may not be welcome to use their buoy, hence an early start to get in before they arrive with their trainees to disturb the visibility.
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