Just the two of us...

Sorry, Barbara and Steve, but we had the best wind of the holiday today! Once Fungi had signed us out of Dingle, we had a great Force 4-5 close reach across to Valentia Harbour, making over 7 knots pretty consistently. Di treated it as her upper-body workout at the wheel as we bounced over some short wind-against-tide waves.


We crept over the sand bar with only about a metre under the keel and then motored up river to a small town called Cahersiveen. It has a tiny marina, carved out of the riverbank, and Kieran, the very friendly marina manager who used the lovely phrase "Take your ease", meaning don't rush to come and sort out the paperwork.


After a late lunch we walked into a town dominated by an extraordinary building that looks like a Schloss - a C19th army barracks. After a shortish walk we found our second Keating's Bar of the holiday so, of course, had to support the family business again.


The evening has cleared and the wind has dropped but there are heavy, ominous clouds all around us. We're planning a longish day tomorrow to Bear Island and another small marina at Lawrence Cove so we'll see what the weather brings us. All continues well aboard apart from a technical hitch: having replenished our food stocks (including Yeo Valley yogurt) at the Supa Valu supermarket in Dingle (much better than its name suggests), we have found that the aft fridge (yes Maunie has two!) has packed up. Forward fridge is now stocked tightly!