Finally Out of Ayamonte Marina

We really like Ayamonte which is a nice little town. But four days in the marina was too long and as it was quite sheltered, things got very hot at times and made sleeping difficult at night. Now we have dropped anchor in the river just upstream of the town.

This location neatly avoids the wash from the fish boats and the cross river ferry. We will wait here for the Levanter that is blowing at the moment to blow itself out before heading back to the Cadiz area. Tuesday is looking promising.

For those of you unfamiliar with the weather terminology for this area - a levanter is the strong easterly wind that periodically blows down the Straits of Gibraltar and then spills up the coast as far as Cadiz even.

We have told the insurers that we will be heading to Morocco sometime after 15/07 so hopefully we will be bidding Europe farewell in a bit over a week.

Nice view of the bridge that connects this part of Spain with Portugal.