Valle De Grey Anchorage.
After leaving the cram packed marina in San Sebastian, we decided to go and anchor on the west of the island with our friends Aliisa and Doris. We had to stay here and wait for a good weather window before our 800 mile crossing to Cape Verdes.
Bearing in mind we did not want to stay too long as we had just filled up with water and got a load of fresh fruit and veggies as we were not really sure of the situation in Cape Verdes. A lot of the pilot books we read said that it was difficult to get water there and terrible for stocking up, so we not really sure whether this had to last us a month until we got to the Caribbean.
Vale De Grey was a really beautiful anchorage with hardly any swell and with huge cliffs just on the edge of the water. When we arrived we had real difficulty anchoring and our anchor dragged three times before it bit. It is a real hippie town and we were anchored by a meditation centre full of naked people which was quite entertaining.
We had a really good view of the naked people walking from there along the path leading from the beach to town and what we found really bazaar was that they were walking in the nod, everything hanging out but were wearing hats aswell as socks and shoes, it looked soooo weird.
Anyways we had look round the town which was definitely the most unique out of all the canary islands. It used to be a bit of a mecca for the hippies back in the olden days and there are even some people still living on the beach since the 80’s. We had a Bbq on Quartermoon and went snorkelling a few times. We checked the weather on the intent and decided to leave on Sat 6th December for Cape Verdes.
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