Avery pleasant couple of days
were spent in Bray harbour but on the third night the wind picked up and we
found out why it is not good to be there in a North East wind. The swell came
rolling in and set all the boats rolling and pitching. We ended up trying to
sleep in the middle of the boat. On the cabin floor and the settee.
The next morning we left Bray
and went just a few miles to a tiny anchorage on the South West corner of the
island called Hannaine
Bay . It has a very narrow
entrance but inside is a sandy bottom with good holding for the anchor just
below a castle. Not perfectly flat water but soooo much better than being in
Bray and Ti Gitu is the only boat here. It appears that the wind tends to
funnel round here so it is stronger in the anchorage than outside but that does
keep the wind generator going well.
The islands just to the south
of us are totally covered in gnu (guano) and thousands and thousands of
gannets. Reminds us of Scotland .
After 3 nights there we
sailed South first to Sark but with the fresh wind that was blowing did not
like the depth of the anchorage and the little sheltered bay where there are
moorings was full so we sailed across to the South of Guernsey and anchored in Petit Port
a bay sheltered from East round to nearly West. Slightly rolly at certain times
of the tide but acceptable.
We will look to go into St
Peter Port soon and do a trip round the island.
Would you believe my mobile
phone account with GiffGaff stopped working. It appears that to them the
Channel Islands are not in the UK
or Europe and so
they can't sort it until I go back to theUK . It all works OK until it goes
wrong, then there is no one to telephone, you have to contact an agent -
whatever that is - but impossible from here. So I made a complaint in the hope
of sorting it. Useless!!! I'm now looking for a new provider.
they can't sort it until I go back to the
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