Episode 12 Departing Falmouth and arriving in Ireland just in time for a big low...

 Episode 12, Departing Falmouth and arriving in Ireland just in time for a big low...

Well at 0600 we knocked on the boat rafted to us, he had promised to be up and he was. 0605 Cast off and under way.  

Fair foggy and high barometer.

Good forecast, what we needed.

 Where the cruise ship had tied up. They too had missed the trooping of the colours but by two days not hours like us.

 Had the radar on standby.

 The day got brighter and the seas were not a problem. At Newlin we decided to keep going. Knowing we were to be weathered in we figured we would prefer to head to Ireland as opposed to be weathered in at the Scily Islands, we have more people that we love in Ireland so we decided to keep heading west.

 Dr. syntax head, the names are great.

 Same as above just greater detail 

 There is an anchorage indicated on the charts. Even with the binoculars' we could not find it nor did we pursue a closer inspection. 

 Tried to get a photo of fogy night watch. We have radar, AIS, Depth down, then the 4 red on the right are the engine bulkhead display and bottom of the photo is the compass light just fwd. of the wheel.  

 The hook light.

 11:30 Anchored outside Dunmore East.

 Swimmers kept safe behind the yellow markers wearing high visibility arms on their wet suits. The water was 11C.

 Optimist's race training.

 Families tubing

 Had the best seat in the house

 Noel topped up our fuel from the deck jugs

 All this while a roast dinner cooked. Felt like the last one was with my sister and family Easter Sunday. It was very good we had to wait for the tide and there is only so much sleeping and boat jobs that you can do. One of the children  of the families that were tubing asked if any one had anything to eat he was famished! They wrapped up their activities and went to find food. I think they smelled our dinner. 

 Underway heading up river.  Bridge was open waiting for us

 Closed quickly behind us, we were later then we had estimated with our arrival time. Just after the bridge closed we were hailed on the vhf radio by our good friends Patrick and Sheila who have a house overlooking cheek point on the river. Great chat with them and then later in the week we had lunch with them at the DunBrody centre.

 The new bridge is now complete. Our earlier blogs you could see this progressing. It is a bypass for New Ross town itself and has brought life back into town as there are no longer large vehicles trying choking up the place. 

 Dry dock is full with a queue of two on the pontoon. 

 New crane.

 And we are home again! along side the pontoon with a lovely new ramp and the a wonderful warm welcome from our pals Michael, Steven and Miss Sadie the dog. Very happy to be here. With the forecast we expect about 4 days and could not be in a better place. 

And so ends this blog with more to come. 

 

 

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