Rianxo

The winds were still very light as we left Pobra, we negotiated the many bateas that inhabit this particular Ria quite heavily and made our way into the marked channel to Villagarcia.

We went close in to inspect the anchorage, the marina was an option but anchoring was what we were about, something about getting our voyaging heads back on. We looked at the spars littering the beach delineating the shellfish beds, we saw how constricted we would be in the corner of the beach

 and harbour wall, we figured the wind direction for the next 48 hours, we spotted the shellfish beds landing dock, Lynne spotted the industrial nature of the harbour......

So we turned around and headed through the small islets and rocks ( tricky with only a couple of metres under the keel ) headed for Rianxo, and an anchorage of a smalll beach which we figured would give good holding and shelter from the predominantly NE winds.

As we approached I opened the fore hatch and using our outdated echo-sounder and a suspicious sandy patch of water ( lighter colour) dropped our trusty Bruce anchor in 5 metres.

This was the playa de Quencho/Tanxil, a perfectly lovely spot, even better for being overseen by the towns local saint la Virgen de Guadeloupe. In fact she was looking over us from the beach.

The forecast winds certainly blew! Although generally we were blessed with sun and cloudless sky's  the wind was a consistent 14 knots and was 25 knots on the gusts, north to north east. The holding was perfect, LaVigen de Gauadeloupe was looking over us to be sure. In three days we moved not one inch. We swam ( although the water was fearsome cold) Lynne went to explore the town while I stayed on board and worried....

Later in the evening we went ashore to explore, the beach was immaculate as we had become used to in Spain. It was used by locals after work as a beautiful resource, which seems to be a lifestyle choice I can understand.

The wind continued northerly which gave us shelter in the lee of the land.

We would stay a week at anchor here.....