We had an uneventful 24 hour crossing from Ireland to the Scillies, helped greatly by Tim taking a share of the watches. We had some fog, which is disconcerting, particularly at night (ships you can't see are much more worrying than ships you can), motored some of the time, and arrived in Tresco surprisingly fresh.
Tresco is a small island designed to look like an ideal seaside village. The result seemed to us to be a bit unnatural and twee. There are quite a lot of holidaymakers, trippers and yachtspeople and few residents. The gardens however are superb, making the most of the island's frost-free climate. And even ordinary roadside walls can be spectacular.
St Mary's is even busier and less characterful but the two smaller islands we visited, St Martins and St Agnes were both lovely and more natural and lived in. In all we had a delightful potter around for four days.
We croosed to |Falmouth yesterday - again a quiet passage of 11 hours or so. Tim left us this morning and Val and I went on to Plymouth, where we are now. We ventured a line in the water and out popped a mackerel, then another and .... They're all pretty small so we think we can manage the five for dinner tonight.
The bad news is the weather. Just about everything short of gales is in the forecast. Rain, thunder, strong winds (south - we need to go southeast), fog. So far we are expecting a locust-free passage but who knows? None of the forecasts we seen seem to be predicting any improvements, but we're still looking for one that does. We may stick around here for some time!
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