Garachico

At Garachico we caught up with Phillipe and Imelda (S/V Pilhaouers). It was great to see them again. They had hired a car and we went with them to La Orotava for a day out, incorporating a picnic in the mountains. A good day.

The beautiful gardens in La Orotava

Phillippe, Miles & Imelda

Whilst at Garachico our son Zak flew out for a weeks holiday. There were many fiestas at that time of year, every weekend it seemed, the biggest was to celebrate the eruption of mount Tiedi that almost kiboshed the town, only celebrated every 5 years and was quite spectacular.

Zak & Alison 

Fantastic Floats

Fiesta celebrating the volcanic eruption

The marina is only a few years old and very pleasant. One of our favorites. If you are visiting yourself by boat take care near the marina entrance as on the port side there are a couple of partially submerged rocks that are not marked yet. (A west cardinal I would suggest) so stay well to starboard and you will be fine. We were warned previously by an email from 'Pilhaours', very grateful.

Marina entrance (note the white water-submerged rocks!!!!

Very smart marina. spoilt only be the sound of traditional Canarian music being pelted out at full blast by a local power boat behind us, when he wasn't at work. He also had his phone connected to his stereo by bluetooth so all of his calls and message/text notifications - you know that annoying whistlng ditty that Samsung have- were broadcast as well.

 You know I'm not one to grumble (MUCH) but that music is bloody awful. we put on our stereo so we couldn't hear his but I think he could hear ours 'cos of the wind and turned his up louder. I didn't want to get into a volume war, although we have a pretty good stereo onboard so we went below decks and listened to ours there. I didn't complain because it was fiesta time and didn't want to upset the locals.

I think he must have been telt by somebody because after about 3 occasions he turned it down really low or not on at all. Thank God.

There was no wifi at the marina but we got a good connection at El Roque cafe, 10 mins walk.