We enjoyed the scenery on the way out of Lisbon, and we have now made it safely across from Lisbon to the Bay of Cadiz, where we’re in a marina in the small town of Rota.
The journey of 260 miles took around 48 hours, with quite large Atlantic rollers on the first day, and calmer seas on the second. Our strategy of hugging the coastline paid off as we didn’t see any orcas on our journey. We did have some other wildlife encounters en route – a pod of ten to twelve dolphins chasing tuna past our boat, the tuna leaping out of the water with the dolphins leaping after them. And we played host to an exhausted racing pigeon who had a rest on our deck for a few hours!
We still have a shorter stretch of water to cross where the orcas have been reported, from Cadiz to Gibraltar, when we leave here on Friday 7th July. We’ll post again when we’re safely in Gibraltar, but in the meantime there is Sophie’s 11th birthday to celebrate tomorrow (5th July) with a trip into Cadiz.
Glad that you’ll missed the orcas, would have loved to have seen those dolphins though.
Have a lovely birthday Sophie 🥳🎉🎂
Loving the updates all. So glad you’re finally living the dream. Stay safe and hope there is time for that never ending list of boat jobs amongst all these adventures! Lots of love. The Bales xxxx
Great photos of the dolphins 🐬
Have a nice and smooth sailing across to Gibraltar on Friday. X
Happy Birthday Sophie 🥳
Happy Birthday Sophie
I love the racing pigeon. He is very cute. Good luck with the next leg to Gibraltar. There is a lovely M&S and Debenhams there… probably shut down now. Have fun x
Happy birthday xxxx
Happy birthday Sophie. Safina xx
Happy birthday Sophie.
Did you catch anything Will?