My sister Joline, her hubby Chris and my beautiful baby niece Lili have booked to fly out to meet us on the 20th November in Puerto de Carmen so we leave Playa Blanca in the morning to sail around to the anchorage.
Well it ends up being a night mare. The supposed anchorages don’t really exist. There are no other boats to be seen and they are completely open to the sea. We ask this dive boat where we can anchor and he tells us to go just in front of the next beach. The water is so clear that when we are dropping the anchor, we see an Angel Fish as clear as day. It was wicked. We settle down, happy that we have finally found somewhere ( only in settled weather, if the wind picked up, we would be totally exposed and have to move ) when the police show up and tell us we have to move. Gutted. The only other option we are left with is to sail up to the capital Affecife where there is a proper anchorage. We get there just before nightfall and drop the hook.

We figure that we will stay anchored here for the week and hire a car or catch the bus to Puerto De Carmen to visit my family. After a bit of a crappy day its all worth it when we get to see our family. Its been 4 months since we’ve seen them in Britain, so we all go out to a restaurant for a nice meal and a good catch up. It was wicked to see Lili , I don’t think she remembered who we were but it did not take long.

We spent the following few days catching the bus in the morning, meeting them in their hotel and lounging around the pool. We were a bit paranoid at the start just in case we got thrown out , which would have been quite embarrassing, but after a few days we chilled out cos all the staff thought we were staying there full time. Ha Ha.
Lili was brilliant in the water, she actually liked being splashed and having her head ducked under the water, which I found nuts, but she has been taken to swimming classes since she was born so I guess she used to it by now. Every time we got out the water and settled down on the loungers she wanted to go back in the pool. It even had a Jacuzzi there which was lush.