Le Verdon-sur-Mer

We left Saint-Dénis-d'Oleron a little bit before dawn since it is a tidal harbour. The upside from this early morning is that we had another beautiful sunrise sail.

A few hours later we caught our first tuna (bonito) or in other words we caught our first sashimi, sushi, tuna tartar and tuna steaks!! 🐟🍣🥩So happy, as you probably can see 😉! Most surprising part was that only a tiny bit of our fishing line was out since we spent most of our trip (about 10 hrs) untangling our fishing line. Bart also tried out our fishing rod for the first time and caught a sea bass! We are both working hard to give our Tinder profiles an upgrade as you can tell from all of the fishing pictures.

I also tried the rod. In the picture everything seems to be going well, but I managed managed to get the line caught in the spinning reel in about 15 mimutes. We decided that meant a one day fishing rod suspension for me...

After arrival Bart gave a short fish cleaning course to Mariëlle and Willem, well mostly Willem (WoL). Of course we had tuna for dinner, what a deliciousness. Of course we also had to watch the Olympics especially since it turned out to be such an incredible good day. That mixed 4x400m race, just wow, we both had goosebumps.

Since we were waiting for some more fair winds we had another day to kill in Le Verdon-sur-Mer. We took a walk to the town but turned around rather quickly. Except for the large supermarket there wasn't much to see.

WoL could use a little help up in one of their masts so the boys hoisted me up. Luckily I didn't have to go up too far. Afterwards Mariëlle and Willem were very kind to invite us for dinner at a restaurant in the harbor. It was delicious, but soo much! Even after calling in Vuilnisbart to help me out with my mussels, we couldn't finish them.Read more