Canary Islands / La Graciosa

We left Barbate in Andalucia on 10 December, heading for Morocco.

Unfortunately we got into very heavy weather, actually worse than what weather reports had foreseen, with waves of 5m and wind, which I felt to be around at least 8 bft at times. That, and the experience we already had with river estuarys with bars and sandbanks just outside Sancti Petri, made that we changed our minds and stayed at sea, well, until 570 miles and 5 days later.

This morning we arrived on La Graciosa, one of the minor islands of the Canary Islands. We had nice sailing conditions after the storm and swell decreased day by day.

Now we are at ancor off the southern coast of that lovely island (the little white spot on the foto), where there are no cars except Land Rovers and no asphaltroads.