June 20th, Day 6. First half of the day was awesome, and the crossing along Wexford harbor was beautiful. Got on the water at 7:00 with sunshine and the water was like glass, no wind until Rosslare harbor which was amazing. Crossing the harbor I went along the sand flats and most the time was in a couple feet to a couple inches of water looking down at the bright rippled sand. Seals followed me and looked at me the whole time, there were maybe 40 total and they are so curious. Made the crossing and then shot down to Rosslare because there was a Supervalue there and I was pretty much out of food. Asked the two fisherman finishing up their day off their little boat and turns out they were building a much bigger international ferry port and with all the harbor construction I couldn’t get there. So they offered to take me and the thing about people in Ireland is 99% of them are good hearted kind people so it’s easy to tell when people are genuine. One of them lived two minutes walk from the shop and his wife even made me lunch and tea and then they brought me back down. So lovely.
That’s when the wind picked up and I crossed around Rosslare harbor staring and the big Stena Line ship. Went around the corner and slogged into the wind for the last 7 miles of the day to Carne beach. Pulled up and knew it was a wash the next day so I texted people to see if they knew anyone in this area that I could stay with the next day. Wasn’t that windy so I set up my stuff after eating a whole pint of Greek yogurt which was nice to have fresh dairy. Thanks to Kevin who just released his book about his circumnavigation, he got me in touch with some lovely people.
June 21, 22, Day 7 & 8
So lovely to stay inside and get laundry done, shower, rinse dry suit, fix hat and all the rest of it. Keeping the boat at the caravan camping park behind Carne beach and the ladies there had me in for brown bread and coffee, very sweet. Body is getting used to this so aches and pains here and there and it’s good to take a couple days break to avoid fatigue. They have a dog :)
