Corme, Camerinas and Muros

Muros

Another beautiful place, free anchoring and not at all crowded. The weather is at last very hot although we had a cold wind on the 9 hour sail down here. We have been so pleased with Old Harry the wind vane and 3rd crew member (just a note for Pete there really, he did really well on down wind sail goose winged which we thought he would struggle with). Explored the old town with lovely old traditional buildings, many of which are undergoing renovation at the moment.

Muros typicial old street

Got up the first morning to find ouselves surrounded by little local boats full of snorklers appantly collecting razor shell fish which are a delicacy here. We have an outboard motor on the tender we use to get us to the shore but I have been trying to improve my rowing skills in an attempt to also do more excercise so killing two birds with one stone.

Local Galician fishing boat Snorklers collecting razor shellfish

Met up with Bob and Arlene and it was Bobs 'Heinz' birthday on Monday so we had to go out and celebrate.

Arlene and I with Galicia 'bowls' of wine!



Bob's 'Heinz' birthday

The next day took a bus (after much too'ing and fro'ing to find out were the bus went from and what time it came....which appeared to be anytime at all within a given hour!) to Ezos were there was reported to be a fantistic famous waterfall. Well when we got there we discovered it was near a big hydro electric power station and they switched the water off during the week only allowing to flow down the high granite rocks at weekends. Still we had a nice picnic and managed to find a bus back to Muros eventually!

The waterless waterfall!

There are other lovely small towns within this Ria which we are planning to explore before moving on to the next Ria.

14 August 2009 (Corme and Camerinas)

Had a downwind rather rolley sail down from La Coruna to Corme in the Ria Corme y Laxe. There was a strong North easterly during the 7 hour trip and it blew us into Corme in the late afternoon. Corme is a quiet fishing village with lots of mussel rafts in the harbour were they farm mussels. While we where anchored behind the breakwater it became evident there was a large fire going on behind one of the hills. A helicopter appeared with a large red bucket underneath it and proceeded to fly over us and quite near it would dip the bucket into the sea and fly off with the collected to water to pour over the fire.

He did this many times and the smoke eventually died down. It looked as if it was a forest fire. That was about as exciting as it got in Corme and we left the next morning in a light north easterly and made for Camarinas in the Ria de Camarinas. We had a lovely sail over around 4 hours but had to resort to the engine when the wind died altogether during the last 3 miles, it was very hot.

Camerinas is a beautiful Ria with idyllic white sandy beaches and forests all around. We anchored off one of the beaches and just chilled in the cockpit and looking at the scenery, it was amazing. We plan to try to take a long walk here. Bob and Arlene were in the Ria ahead of us so we had a little Cava in their cockpit to celebrate our arrival (any excuse!)Awoke the next morning to the thickest fog you have ever seen. You could hardly see the end of the boat, good job we hadn’t planned to go anywhere this morning. These fogs are quite common on this coast, would be quite scary if it happens out at sea.

Camerinos with Rapau anchored in the background