Still Around Gibraltar

We continue to stay still at Puerto Alcaidesa for now. This is for a number of reasons but we certainly need to sit still just for now though the easterlies have been very tempting. My Brother arrives on 01 May and we will be heading west after that.

One thing we have done is get new batteries. Originally, we intended in crossing over to Marina Bay in Gibraltar and getting them that way but a levanter blew up and we really didn't like the idea of trying to maneuver in a F7 in very restricted places. It was also the cue for us to hire a car.

Here is an attempt to catch the interesting sight of The Rock from our foredeck at night. Not quite free of camera shake but it can be very dramatic.



We now have two shiny new batteries which is very nice and the windmill topping up the charge rather than struggling to get a charge into the knackered old batteries.

Perhaps, one of the stranger experiences of being in the vicinity of Gibralter was a chance to get a lot of tins in Morrisons. Those of you familiar with Gibraltar will know that the Morrisons there is exactly like one in the UK with a lot of Tea, Marmite and Marmalade. What it did have for us was a selection of tins much smaller than what you can get in Spanish supermarkets. The food locker now has a lot more tinned tomato and suck like.

Of course, a hire car also gave us the opportunity to do a bit of sightseeing. Today, we made it as far as Fuengirola and tomorrow we plan to get to Ronda at last.

Here are some pictures of our perambulations.

Estepona is, I suppose, typical of this stretch of coastline. We only drank a coffee in Fuengirola but didn't take any photos there.

An attempt at an "artistic" photo.


And a different view of Gibraltar in the haze.


One wonders what this stretch of coast must have been like over a century ago before tourism displaced the fishing as the main way that people earned their living.


The flowers were typically nice as well.