2020 (3), The time to do nothing.

Firstly I want to say we have been devastated.... When one chooses a name for a boat, you think long and hard about all the connotations that might be made, lanuguage barriers and ease of pronunctiation.. NOW  we have had Kiwi Rose for 10 years and have been well pleased with the name.--------------------so when a lovely french lady swims by our boat in Sete, and asks " whats a pink kiwi??", we are flabbergasted and of course immediately realise , rose wine.😭😥😥.  oh bugger !!!!

To move on.....We love sitting on this wall here in the middle of no-where at les Aresquires. Stayed 6 nights. (only meant to be 24hrs😏😏).  No water, electricity, cars, night noise and hardly any other boats, except the local fishermen who zoom past at all hours in little speedy wooden boats that through up a hell of a wake..

The hire boats go past on a mission or moor to go to the beach for a quick swim. We have had lots of lovely cycle trips exploring the surrounding area, and one never forgets the wonderful smell of the sandy hot dry pine forests.. 

 

The View from the bridge at les Aresquiers of the Canal du Rhone a Sete.   And a 3-5 min cycle to the beach.

                                                         

  

Night times views.

 Not much happening, no travel, just lazy days, doing nothing in the mornings, maybe a cycle trip or just reading.  Temps about 28-32 degrees, and so we have found a favourite beach for the afternoons, with quiet seas one day, and ????not the next. 

And of course the beautiful Flamingoes. I have tried to catch a photo in flight as their pink wings are tinged with black, but no luck yet.

                                                 On our exploring we found a fresh shell fish stall, and later that day a hungry wife cycled to get supper---what a presentation, freshly shucked and on ice.

One of the problems with boating is where to fill up with water, and where to get deisel. For some reason here where we are its scarce. We have found we can easily last 9 days on our water tanks so that just requires trips to Frontignan (easy and local) to top up, but Deisel???    

Max after much consideration (ie, not wanting to lug 20-30l cans of deisel in his bike and load the boat up that way)--- we decided to go to SEA to get deisel!!!So on a lovely calm morning (8am) we headed out at the Frontignan canal exit onto the Mediterranian. 

The return trip to the sea port of Frontignan took us all of about 90mins but we have been to sea!!! 

After this lovely excursion we deicided to go out onto the Etang de Thau again and the idea was to drop anchor for the night just outside Meze.  The wind decided to get up a bit and it became a bit to rocky, so just we had lunch and returned to the canal.

Some of the sq kms of oyster        and muscle beds on the Etang. 

Pretty boats moored up, but really, even this is a bit far in "growing your own"

    

We think our plan from here is to head to Aigues-Morte and do some more exploring by bicycle around the Camargue area before we head back up to Beziers in Mid september. The weather is starting to cool a bit to 26 degrees and the nights are definately drawing in. It alwasy amazing us how quickly it happens as summer comes to a close.

With the Uk and the rest of the EU changing quaratine laws everyday as the number of people testing positive continues to rise, (especially in the 20-40 age group) we will wait and see how it effects our return to UK.

((Please excuse the irregularity of the blogging but for some reason this version I find difficult to us and has a mind of its own when it goes to print.😒.))