Our second O!bora cruise (after Croatia) - this time on the Canary Islands.

Well, I have mixed feelings about this trip. Unfortunately we wasted much of our vacation time when one of the boats broke down (the propeller fell off!). Before everything was finished, several days went by (sitting on our asses in one city instead of sailing and/or sightseeing).

On the other hand, the islands are splendid and beautiful. I thought they will be dry, sterile, and not very hospitable. Maybe some places are like that, but there great mountains and rocks, forests, and volcanoes, obviously. I snorkeled once, but that single time I forgot to take the underwater camera (of course)... Not much of underwater plants or corals and stuff like that, but lots of nice fish.

Food is quite ok, although I expected something better. All in all, the best food was prepared by people from our boat - shrimp in butter, garlic, and lemon. Here, in a restaurant, you have to pay a small fortune for just six; there, we could eat our fill for much less...

Apart from that: biiig waves (after all, it's an ocean) and very long trips between islands. Our cabin was on the bow. And that was pretty tough, especially when the boat, time after time, hit the water with a noise so loud that we were afraid everything will fall apart. And it's pretty interesting what people can tolerate when they need to sleep... But I had to figure out a special way of lying so that I wouldn't be tossed at the walls of the cabin...

And worst of all, on the last day, when going below deck, I sprained my ankle. On the bright side - this saved me a night watch!

But we had some nice summer (about 27 degrees), when in Poland winter decided to finally come...

So, our voyage looked as follows:

• Plane from Cracow to London (Stansted)
• Bus and train to Gatwick (I guess this wasn't the best choice of getting there)
• Plane to Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
• Taxi to the marina (f*cking assholes, they drive there for some 20 years and don't know where the port is!)
• Tried to get to Tenerife, but sailed back to Gran Canaria (our girls got sick - a very unfortunate wave)
• Martha and Aneta took the ferry to Santa Cruz and a bus to the south side of Tenerife; the rest sailed to Los Cristianos
• Los Cristianos; the second boat was being fixed
• Los Cristianos
• Los Cristianos
• Sailing to Gomera; the second boat was still being fixed
• We rented a car and had a trip on Gomera; the second boat made a short stop on Gomera but went right away to La Palma
• We sailed to La Palma; the second group took a car around the island (apparently it's quite nice)
• Together (that is, several hours apart) we sailed to Santa Cruz (about 120 miles, 28 hours of sailing); our girls - half an hour by plane...
• Trip to the volcano Teide
• Trip to Cueva de Punto Blanco
• Sailed to Las Palmas
• Taxi to the airport (this time the driver didn't try to rip us off)
• Plane to London; this time to the same airport that we had...
• Plane to Cracow - into the freezing winter! :)

Right, during the voyage we visited our first lave cave - Cueva de Punto Blanco.