As soon as we left the Dart River I lost my internet connection at Start Point so haven't until now been able to post. Salcombe is a very pretty estuary and we laid on one of the visitors pontoons just out of the run of the tide. Paddling ashore in the dinghy was a bit of a struggle because they are difficult to row and I nearly fell in, but didn't as that would have got to the Wheatsheaf eventually when we got back. It was a close thing. The waste and recycling has its own pontoon but trying to get on to it proved difficult from a low dinghy to discard our garbage.
We needed stores; running low on wine, bread and other supplies, luckily all the shops were open and it was crowded with tourists. No supermarket though and although we paid a little over the odds for the wine it is superb Marlborough Sauvingnon blanc. This morning we took on water as the water is soft here and it's lovely to have a shower on board without using hardly any shampoo. I made use of the open butchers to get some sirloin steak and some fresh croissants.
So after that about midday to get the right tides we headed back east towards Start Point, crossing the entrance to the Dart river whereupon another pod of dolphins came towards us at speed and I managed to get a decent picture this time (loaded up later when I'm home). What I am going to do is go to the Apple shop next week and purchase something that wil allow me to post pictures from my phone or my iPad onto this blog, it's infuriating as the scenery along the coastline and the estuaries and rivers is stunning.
So crossing Lyme Bay in some heat of the day, flat calm seas I read yet another book, that's my 4th this trip and I'm really enjoying them. it's taken around 5 hours to get here but worth it as the harbour has changed alaot over the years and now can accommodate boats like ours in this tidal harbour and we can get ashore without the dinghy. Bill is currently being a tourist and looking at a trawler that's just come in to land the fish.
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