I was in the Canary Islands just before Christmas. I ended up on the Island of La Gomera where the Talisker Challenge rowers were in the final stages of preparing to set out across the Atlantic. I suppose it was inevitable that I would meet someone I had sailed with and indeed I did. He gave me news of someone else I had sailed with who was currently anchored off Teneriffe. Its a small world that brought the three of us - who had once sailed together for a week off Scotland - and here we had come together again by chance on a small obscure Atlantic island.
I found it facinating to see the shorebased cardinals rather than the cardinal buoys I am used to in the North and I had to take a few pictures of these.
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| This one is at Adeje Marina on Teneriffe |
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| Cardinal mark in a car park! |
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| East Cardinal on a wall and Beardy Sailor in pink: - two unlikely sights! |
