Wednesday 5th May
Some shopping in the town in the morning left us free to leave Torquay around lunchtime and we left just after one o clock. After the wind being from the North East for the previous couple of days and even earlier in the morning, ten minutes before we left it swung round to the South East, exactly the direction we were headed. We left anyway and motorsailed (a combination of sail up with engine propelling the boat as well) to Dartmouth arriving mid afternoon.
A couple of hours on a pontoon in Dartmouth meant the current in the river had changed direction and we headed upstream to Dittisham where again, we had a choice of buoys although there were many more boats than on our previous visit. A nice chicken stir fry with wine settled us down for the night.
Thursday 6th May
Election day apparently, we voted before leaving home by post.
We woke at about half past seven, astounded at the tranquillity. Despite being afloat the river was so calm that we could have been ashore, the boat was not moving. We could hear sheep baaing in the distance and the occasional call of a pheasant, nothing else at all. Our first man made sound came at about ten to eight when we heard the bell at Dittisham summon the ferryman across to take his first passenger of the day, possibly the gardener on his way to work at Greenway.
Shortly after this we heard the pat, pat, pat as rain started to fall on the deck above our heads. It seemed a good idea to stay in bed where we were and see whether the rain would soon stop to enable us to visit Greenway. It was still raining when we got up an hour later.
Never mind, at least we have mobile broadband here. No grand daughter yet though!
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