FUERTEVENTURA :
March 14th to 16th 2000
 The island of Fuerteventura,
south of Lanzarote, is known for its huge beaches that run along its
eastern coast. Corralejo is a pleasant city quite concentrated on tourism.
Lots of pizzerias...
But this is really not the place we wanted to go to when we left Puerto
Calero. In fact, we were aiming for Las Palmas in Gran canaria. The
first couple hours, there was a nice north-east wind and suddenly, between
the islands, the wind went away totally. This lasted a while. We had
to turn on the engine. But Ludo didn't stand it for long, he decided
to go to Corralejo for the night and decide whether we really wanted
to do the trip with the engine or whether we waited for the wind to
come back..
We spent the night anchoring which was a mistake. It was very uncomfortable,
and every three hours, a huge ferry turned around 20 meters from our
boat's bow. Not a good feeling.
We left the port with a bit of northern wind, but we had to motor all
the way as feared. Ho well. It was only 18 hours. It wasn't too bad.
Back to : Lanzarote
Continue to : Gran Canaria - Tenerife
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