Corsica…. when you love it returns there
We leave Port Camargue Sunday 4 October in late afternoon... Quiet navigation and opportunity to try the new canes to fishing. We are quickly rewarded by a nice yellow fin tuna, which quickly found its place in the refrigerator.
C ’ is with a wind of 25 nodes that we arrive on Tuesday 6 October to Girolata. We are preparing to put the anchor, but the swell and the wind rush in the front port. There are few vessels in the Bay and we put between the buoys to explore the better protected area. Quickly the boat of the port comes to meet us to help us Moor us before and back on a mooring. Tao is safe to wait until the end of the gust of wind.
Philippe in action with his new equipment.
I did not have the time to get out the camera that the tuna was already half cut!
The tourist season is over and the village is quiet. Most bars and restaurants are closed for the winter and the port authorities remove the mooring. The village is isolated because only accessible by sea. Rare shuttle deposited a few tourists who make a few steps to the ground, sit at a deserted terrace and disappear with the boat that brought them.
A very nice meeting with the crew of "Tits": Hélène, Pascal and Joan who live on their sailboat for a year and are ready to go on the side of the Atlantic as early as 2016. We wish them great adventures and so much happiness in the sea that we have. It is the opportunity to share tuna caught that morning, with a little wine.
The Bay of Girolata almost empty and Tao to shelter on its mooring.
The view from the boat
Ride on the heights of Girolata
We cannot dwell too long because we have an appointment in Ajaccio to Catherine, the sister of Philippe, who has had the good idea to come and see us for ten days.
We get wet in the South of the Margonajo Jetty between the marina and ferry docks. Noise and movement between SNCM and Corsica ferries and goes it, trucks that enter or leave these ferries and liners that dégueulent their cargo of tourists that are disoriented and exhausted in the alleys of the old Ajaccio.
Catherine arrives and we hasten to leave the Sanguinaires Islands for a first night in the quiet, then the numerous bays between Ajaccio and Bonifacio.
First bath in beautiful water at 20 °. For a Breton is hot, but for us who are accustomed to the tropics, It's harder!
Time passes quickly between ballads ashore to explore natural parks, reach a Genoese Tower or just go on the heights to admire the landscapes...
Luck is with us it is nice and warm but... time deteriorating seriously we are going in the Deep Bay of Figari to house us wind. It's in a swing and icy rain that 4 time on we throw the anchor but it does not catch in the mud. We go to a few miles to the North in the Bay of Capinero. This time above the anchor hooks well. A small glass of wine is welcome for warm us, even if it isn't quite the hour of the aperitif
But this bad weather does not last and we can again explore other bays in imagining the multitude of boats that should be there in the summer.
Sunday 25 October: We cannot leave Corsica without a visit to Bonifacio. It's the weekend and the captaincy does not respond to the VHF. There are many free places in the port then we settle at Wharf.
This sunny day it is nice to walk in the old town and on the cliffs.
Monday 26 October: Early and before that time spoils, We do a few miles to sail to the Islands Lavezzi in the middle of the Straits of Bonifacio. Breakfast at anchor Cala Rabecca_lemue in a few metres of water in the middle of pebbles. Wind hardens and we are stay well away.
We delay not to annex the water to relax the legs in this wilderness battered by winds and where we are alone.
Nice place to wait for the time to stabilize. May be tomorrow can go us in Sardinia...
Pretty back in Corsica in your company :
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Hello Philippe and Nathalie, We take advantage of “our month” at the port of Cannes for you follow in your journey and penons lot of fun looking at you. We review the familiar places, and the good moments spent in your company.
And Yes, an anchor that skids, It is never the feast, where alarms anchor on laptops or tablets, minimum 3 alarms when ca breath. We also took a spade and are largely more reassured. Very good choice. Don't forget to not check the power of the windlass, because for us we had to change it before you go (motor burnt overnight from a good gust of wind) .
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You didn't have your glasses against seasickness , c is for this…:))))))
Say Nathalie you gave me seassming with all this 😉 and since October…
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Souvenir of my great week with you