Moaña ⚓

It was another short trip from Ria de Aldan to Moaña even though we moved on to the next and last Ria Baixa: Ria de Vigo. The last couple of weeks we haven't had any luck fishing. This time we did, we did big time! At first we didn't even know what we had caught. After asking some help from other vertrekkers (cruisers) we discovered we had caught ourselves a sea bass! And a pretty big one even. While we were sailing towards Moaña we discovered that the other 7 or 8 Dutch boats that were anchored in Moaña were going to have a BBQ at the beach. And we were invited to join as well.

Now the question arose, what are we going to do with our sea bass? I can be quite particular when it comes to food. Yes, I like to share food with others. But, we had also finally caught a fish since weeks and not just a mackerel, but a big ass sea bass! I didn't like the idea of bringing our bass to the bbq and ending up having only just a few bites. Bart on the other hand wanted to bring the sea bass. Even though that would mean he would have to tell people we wouldn't share our sea bass or maybe just a little bit. This dilemma turned out to be quite a learning experience for us.

It really taught is how we are both used to very different types of vacations. Bart enjoys meeting a lot of new people, making friends and doing things together with friends or people we meet along the way. I on the other hand enjoy discovering new things with the two of us. And I do enjoy hanging out with our people, but I prefer to do so on a smaller scale and not as frequent. That's how we used to spend our vacations as kids with our families. Now we need to navigate to make sure both our needs are met. And not doing or doing things can disappoint, fatigue or sometimes even annoy one of us. After the bbq we had a good conversation about this and knowing this about each other makes that we are able to make better decisions about what to do or not to do.

Day two was quite a social day for us. On our way to the bbq the rope to manually start the outboard motor got stuck. In an attempt to repair it a teeny tiny spring and another piece went overboard into the ocean and were lost in no time. Herman and Hella of the Kolibri told us to come over and see if they could help us out with the parts. Unfortunately, they couldn't. We were however able to help them with their fishing gear and we had a lot of very good conversations. Going over for a cup of tea, since we still don't drink coffee, turned into a couple of hours. Herman and Hella were even able to help Bart out to wind up the spring of the outboard motor before we went back to the Nimrod.

Since this day was flying by, we quickly had to move into the harbor because the WoL was already almost there. The day before we had been able to convince them to go a bit further into the ria so we could see each other again. I think we hadn't seen them for about a month. But finally we were reunited again with our good friends Mariëlle and Willem. We had been able to convince them to come to Moaña with the promise to cook them dinner 😉 But Mariëlle was very quick to offer to return the favor fhe next day. Which means we didn't just get one lovely evening together but two! It was very nice to catch up with them again.Read more