Sunday Island Gibraltar

After many months of cruising down the french canals from Holland, through Belgium and France, then cruising the Mediterranean for the summer, Sunday Island has reached Gibraltar!

Fuel in Gibraltar is tax free and much less expensive than Spain. This is a good thing as we’re are down to 5% in our tanks when we pulled into the fuel station in Gibraltar. Once we filled the tanks we crossed the boarder into the Spanish side of Gibraltar, checked into a marina, tied up the boat, and then walked to town.

Our walk took us across the runway, through two boarder crossings and back into Gibraltar on foot. We then explored the town of Gibraltar, and caught the cable car to the top of the rock to look at the view and enjoy watching the monkeys.

Close to our marina the kids enjoyed riding the skate park

We will spend the next few days waiting for a weather window to sail south to Lanzarotee.

Please excuse the recent test messages on the website, however we are configuring the email system on the boat that works via SSB radio so we can update you all on our progress.

Every day, weather and HF signal dependant, I will send an email with a brief summary of our day and update the position report. Unfortunately the onboard signal for sending and receiving emails is text only so we will only be able to add photo’s to the blog when we are in port.

Our position report can be viewed at:

http://cms.winlink.org:444/maps/positionreports.aspx?callsign=vk7hew

Positions can also be viewed on

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:7304925/zoom:10