Sep. 12, 2007 - Up To The Grevelingenmeer

Wednesday morning we headed up to Bruinisse - the locked entrance to the Grevelinengmeer. There was virually no wind, 1 - 2 knots, so we motored all the way. Once inside the Grevelingenmeer, we tied up to the waiting pontoon for lunch, prepared by Wendy while Kim, Trevor and Julie wandered off to the nearby marina to buy a permit to use the islands in the Grevelinengmeer for overnighting. A 7-day permit cost 12 Euros - pretty good value, (even though we only spent one night in the Grevelingenmeer).

We continued virtually all the way up until we arrived at a man-made island called Archipel. In fact Archipel is three islands forming a small archipelago.

In this photo it looks like we have the island to ourselves, but there were actually quite a few boats on the main island but we were on the second largest island with only a Mobo and another smaller yacht that arrived later on in the evening. Our island only took about 5 mins to explore, then we went over to the main island, (all of about 100 metres away!) in the inflatable.

Trevor then had a go at fishing and after a while, actually caught a small fish.

In the evening we had a bar-b-que (no, not Terv's fish!), on the Cobb. Another meal that was far too much accompanied by far too much to drink! Then we watched the sun go down.