Bonnavista

Tarquin. Needs a beery night out. And this town has bars and restaurants. We don’t know it but our exit and run north to Bonavista head is the last we will see of whales for a while. All of the wild life is hear following the shoals of Caplin. They haven spread north into Bonavista bay yet. We enjoy a gentle gibing sail through the rocks to the head land. We are intending to cut inside the island but as we arrive we can see the wind has been compressed up against the land, and we are about t o get hit by it. We go from gentle doddle to 30 knots of breeze in 100 yards. 2 reefs in we go outside the island in the safe water. We are about to beat hard up wind for the second half of the day. Tarquin is earning his beer. 4 hours later we are e heading through the narrow harbour entrance. Quick change and walk into town for beers and ice cream, not necessarily in that order.
5 pints, 1 ice cream and spicy chicken wrap later everybody is ready for bed.Read more