Tuesday, 4 November 2008

SailBlog - Gran Tarajal

Graham
04/11/2008, Gran Tarajal, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands

A short sail today of about 13 Nm has now located us at a place called Gran Tarajal. Confusion over the name had everyone on board thinking that we could go out for a curry here as it sounded like a place called 'Taj Mahal'. How wrong could we all be? This town is relatively quiet, and free from tourism. It appears to be quite traditional, although there is some evidence of apartments being built at the southern end, so it has not entirely escaped the tourism trend so evident elsewhere on our travels. We saw a large shark swimming along today, but not much else in the way of marine life, or indeed any other life. There are very few other yachts around and we and we certainly feel as if we have the island to ourselves. I am certain this will all change once we get to Gran Canaria in a few days time.

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