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Old 08-09-2019, 08:34   #1
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Salvegem Grande

We spent a night in the main anchorage on Salvagem Grande, the largest of the group of tiny islands and islets between Madeira and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic.

There are now three mooring in the anchorage, one of which was taken up by the Maritime Police Rib. The Wardens contacted us on 16 telling us to pick up a mooring rather than anchor.

The skipper had a swim and a look at a mooring and the bottom. He said it looked like a great place to drag or loose and anchor even with a tripping line attached: all sorts of rocks and crevasses. And of course it quite squally with the high hills and cliffs protecting you from the prevailing strong northerlies.

Well worth a visit though.

We didn't get ashore. It would have been difficult to blow up the dinghy safely, and it wasn't obvious how you got out the little field station and police post in the anchorage without climbing gear.
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Old 08-09-2019, 09:01   #2
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Re: Salvegem Grande

Hence the name eh?


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Old 09-09-2019, 06:54   #3
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Re: Salvegem Grande

Higher up the patch and also further down the road you can find more interesting places, not all of them 100% spoiled by cruising and tourism yet:



https://www.roughguides.com/article/...spain-islands/


And these are the bigger ones for there are also rocks like Salvagem out there!


Believe me or not, last year I asked 10 random ARC crews about this:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_...ul_Archipelago


How many knew?


(Spoiler: NONE)


The world is your oyster. If there is no beach bar, they are not coming!


;-)


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