Fishguard ..... I think

I left Holyhead as planned at about 2 a.m. and could not believe after the gale the day before that there was not a breath of wind so I had to motor around the breakwater then around Southstack before turning south towards my first stop at Aberdaron. Now my boat is a sailing boat and it does not like motoring; it has a 10 horse Volvo diesel which would not look out of place on a lawnmower and without the sails up the boat has a tendency to wallow and wallow it did. I had a horrible trip I felt sick then I was sick then I did it all again. I finally reached Bardsey sound and as soon as I could see Aberdaron the wind appeared. Boll...s! I anchored just off the Church (bottom right of my grey picture) and went to sleep. It is a little known fact that I have never successfully anchored before but I HAVE NOW!

I set off from Aberdaron at about 3 a.m. to catch the tide to Fishguard and after an hour motoring again I hit a fog bank which took me nearly 2 hours to motor through. To start with you think every shape is a ferry coming straight for you but since I hadn't seen a ship for 2 days I guess this was fear so I sat on deck cuddling my life raft whilst the autopilot did its job.

I arrived in Fishguard and the sun come out, hooray!!!!, I anchored outside the old drying harbour near the ferry terminal and went to bed. Today I was going to set off for Milford Haven but the weather forecast is for no wind, I felt fed up so I decide to have a lie in and chill out in Fishguard. I pumped up the dingy and put myself ashore at the delightful old harbour at Lower Fishguard then I went over to Goodwick on the other side of the bay to Tesco to buy Chocolate Hobnods, remarkebly my humour improved and I started smiling again.

Pete if your reading this the light blue boat in the picture is our old fried "An Cala" from holyhead.

Tomorrow I'm going around St. David's head passed the cottage that the Haworth family used to spend their summer holidays and then onto Dale which is just before Milford Haven. I hope there is enough wind. Finally thank you for the comments it means alot I can tell you. When you write an anonymous comment stick your name at the end of the post so I know who is being nice and who is being horrid!!!! Bye for now.