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.