Tourist trap

01-03Aug13

Thursday morning and a mooring buoy became free as some of the less 'partied-out' revellers left early. Upon retrieving the anchor we had found soft to firm grey mud explaining the good holding despite having a mere 5m of chain in contact with the bottom. Our race for a spare mooring buoy was well timed just as a squall blew in and other yachts had had the same idea as us.

Rain, rain and more rain so went the next couple of days, each dinghy journey leaving us soaking wet; everyone around us with itchy feet; a callout for the RNLI justified the staying-put regime; then a quiet night, less wind than expected; time to move on.