Where's Bertie? He's still in the coastal car park at Pechón.
Weather: More wall-to-wall sunshine.
During this morning's discussion of 'should we stay or should we go', Mick observed that "It's very nice here, but there's not much to do.". He was quite right, in that we had exhausted all of the walking options with yesterday afternoon's outing.
But it's Sunday and Sundays are a good excuse for doing very little. So, having checked the weather forecast and established that pushing the walk I had pencilled in for tomorrow back to Tuesday wouldn't put us in bad weather, we opted to stay.
A pre-elevenses walk was taken to the next beach along, but that was entirely in the shade, and is small, so it didn't hold us for long. By the time we got back, the seaweed harvesting man was back in action, so I made a flask, threw some croissants into a tub, and we went for elevenses on the rocky island below us, so that we could watch him from closer quarters. The sun wasn't in a helpful position for that, but we ambled around the beach once we had finished, and got to see him in action:
Whilst he was loading the resulting harvest into his trailer (he'd only taken two tractors down to the beach today, and was doing the loading manually with a pitchfork), we had a good look at his tractor. Aside from modifying the air intake to increase its height, he'd put a can of expanding foam to good use in waterproofing around the gear levers:
We wondered whether he had ever had his engine conk out whilst in the water. I'm not sure whether the tow rope coiled up on the front of the engine is indicative that he has, or that he's prepared for the eventuality.
Our only other activity of the day has been a walk up into the village, with an empty 5-litre container, to use a public water tap. The last water we picked up has turned out to be so chlorinated as to be severely unpalatable. We haven't started on the new bottle yet, but hopefully it's not on the same supply network as the last lot!
Weather: More wall-to-wall sunshine.
During this morning's discussion of 'should we stay or should we go', Mick observed that "It's very nice here, but there's not much to do.". He was quite right, in that we had exhausted all of the walking options with yesterday afternoon's outing.
But it's Sunday and Sundays are a good excuse for doing very little. So, having checked the weather forecast and established that pushing the walk I had pencilled in for tomorrow back to Tuesday wouldn't put us in bad weather, we opted to stay.
A pre-elevenses walk was taken to the next beach along, but that was entirely in the shade, and is small, so it didn't hold us for long. By the time we got back, the seaweed harvesting man was back in action, so I made a flask, threw some croissants into a tub, and we went for elevenses on the rocky island below us, so that we could watch him from closer quarters. The sun wasn't in a helpful position for that, but we ambled around the beach once we had finished, and got to see him in action:
Whilst he was loading the resulting harvest into his trailer (he'd only taken two tractors down to the beach today, and was doing the loading manually with a pitchfork), we had a good look at his tractor. Aside from modifying the air intake to increase its height, he'd put a can of expanding foam to good use in waterproofing around the gear levers:
We wondered whether he had ever had his engine conk out whilst in the water. I'm not sure whether the tow rope coiled up on the front of the engine is indicative that he has, or that he's prepared for the eventuality.
Our only other activity of the day has been a walk up into the village, with an empty 5-litre container, to use a public water tap. The last water we picked up has turned out to be so chlorinated as to be severely unpalatable. We haven't started on the new bottle yet, but hopefully it's not on the same supply network as the last lot!
Ho! I have sent you both a (beyond lengthy) eMail. If you don't receive it, don't bother to reply. Schrodinger's cat had the right idea . . .
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