Tequila Sunrise

14th July

Just like to say thanks to our followers for being so patient and waiting for me to put posts in. Grabbed this opportunity to put some updates in. I'll be working backwards so scroll back for delayed posts. Cheers Jo

We made it to Italy. We are now anchored outside the harbour of Venice
The coastline is very shallow here. The storm that past through last night, which I'll get into detail later, left us with a mine field. The sea was just a slush of seaweed, logs and toys! We managed to pick up a couple of really nice lilos along the way, we left the soccer balls and other blow ups behind

Venice harbour was an interesting experience, it was very choppy and narrow with lots of dredging going on. Ferries galore coming in and out, sailing boats, small fishing boats with lines out, kids riding the bow, the list goes on. And by the way...what road code!!

It was such a hair raising experience. The sides where very shallow, it was hard case seeing small boats moored with people wading in and out to them. After making our way in, which was like playing dodgems we made a decision to make a quick turn around and get the beeb out of there

Now out of the habour and chaos, we took a 15 minute anchor. Brett remembering to breathe, pulled out the charts and reassessed the situation
So here we are, a little further up the coastline. Anchored 1 km from shore in a depth of 10 meters
Brett and I took the dingy into shore. We walked around to the other side to check out the harbour here, as the charts aren't that great

Tomorrow we attempt to make our way round the tee-pee markers and hopefully anchor next to a small islet
Brett made comment that it reminds him of the Kaipara Harbour. Its shallow and full of mud, not to mention seaweed and kelp. All that's missing are the sharks!!