Angra
do Heroismo is the town were the marina is on Terceira. It's much
more a town then Horta and Eline finally got to go out shopping :-)
She and Rutger went to explore the town while I took a nap. They were
gone for hours and came back loaded with bags..
Rutger
wanted to buy some new jeans and Eline helped him together with the
lady from the shop. Ha, they made him try on a load of stuff and
combined all kind of shirts.. in the end Eline of course also had
seen a nice shirt, a dress and the pair of shoes she was looking for
for so long...
Anyway,
since I wasn't there... it was Rutger who paid for her stuff as well,
ha!
That
night we had diner at a nice restaurant near the harbor and went for
a coffee to the main square It's a real nice and pretty place and a
very good marina. After coffee I went back to the boat while Rutger
and Eline stayed a bit.
Next
morning at around 5.30 I woke up... just in time to see Eline get
undressed and go to bed... :-)
They
had asked the waitress if she would know a place to go out. She did
actually but that was in another town but if they wanted they could
join her and a her girlfriend... they wanted to go out too after
work.. Of course Rutger and Eline didn't mind to wait a bit... but
after work was around 2.30 pm...
Anyway
they went to different places ending up at the beach close by the
marina and stayed there till sunset :-) They had a great time!
'Next'
day we would leave for Horta but not before midnight since Eline very
much wanted to sail at night. So we spent the afternoon at the beach,
relaxing.. which was in fact our first day at a beach.
Too
bad I only had two decent beach towels, meaning I was on the tiniest
towel you can think off, lying in the sand for the most part :-(
The
water was a bit colder then in the Caribbean let's say very
refreshing. Still it was very nice swimming there. It's surprising
how little tourists there were, I think we were sort of the only ones
while the beach was packed...
That
night we would sail around midnight to the South-East point of Pico
and then go West along the coast back to Horta, Faial. It would take
us most of the night to get down to Pico, getting there early in the
morning, the best time and place for that matter, to see whales.
Of
course Rutger and Eline had to say goodby to there new friends before
leaving, meaning I had the first watch :-o
Eline
stayed on deck too though and she was very excited about the night
scene. It was a perfect clear night with mare stars she had ever
seen. Already in the first half hour she saw 4 shooting stars..
leaving her without wishes :-)
Later
that night we were welcomed by some 10 dolphins. This was her first
time to see dolphins in the wild and she couldn't stop telling how
COOL is was :-)
They
stayed with us for at least 15 minutes. Then when they were gone...
Eline was too. very tiered and she went to bed. So did I :-)
On
my second watch I too saw something new for me: Venus and Jupiter so
extremely bright... it was amazing !! Later I woke Eline to watch the
sunrise which was beautiful too. At home we of course never get to
see the sunset at the beach :-o
After
we rounded the SE end of Pico we saw the little boats that take
people for whale and dolphin watching so we altered our course a bit.
And then suddenly there was this big whale very close by the boat.
Just long enough to see it and realize what we saw and then it was
gone again. Getting closer to the other boats we saw several more,
just relaxing cruising around for a while before disappearing again
into the deep. We also got to see lots of dolphins, little ones that
really jump out of the water and bigger ones that just swam along
side.
In
all it was a exciting trip under perfect conditions except for the
wind which wasn't there..but who cares, we didn't :-)
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