Just went through the Straits of Gibraltar!

Semper gumby as they say...the forecast predicted levanter winds to start tomorrow, which makes the Straits of Gibraltar miserable for sail boats.  So instead of a leisurely sail down the Spanish coast, we spent the last two days making a bee-line down the coast and came through the Straits today.  Wow, wow, and double wow. (Triple wow?).  First came the sail down the coast of Spain when through the haze, off in the distance, we first spotted the peaks of the Atlas mountains of Morocco.  I've wanted to see them ever since I was a 20 year old backpacking around Europe with dreams of going to Marrakesh. Then today, as we were flying through the Straits of Gibraltar with 20+ knots of wind, the Rock of Gibraltar came into view.   After John's years of reading Napoleonic war books, to finally see it was awesome and did not disappoint.  Now securely tied up in a marina with a view of the Rock and Morocco out the boat window, we celebrated with the kids' favorite: pizza, peach cobbler and a movie.  

Going 9.4 knots with 28 knots of wind, heading for the

Rock of Gibraltar (behind the mast)

 



Morocco on the other side of the Straits

 

View of Gibraltar from our boat window

in the marina