Waves

 

It's looking as if the fifth wave of Covid is over in Spain, and particularly in the Canaries, where Lanzarote has startled onlookers such as Greyrocks  with its speedy and dramatic reduction in active cases. Meanwhile on Fuerteventura it has been a mixed picture, with this week a new death (now standing at 17)  a drop below 100 in the active cases followed by a resurgence (currently 112) and the highest 7-day IA of all the islands. The good news is that as of yesterday there are no cases in the hospital. As Greyrocks sees their migration looming there is a sigh of relief,

The nome of Chania has also continued to see  much better numbers for daily cases, although there is a blip for yesterday at 56.

September has seen the third wave of tourists as far as Greyrocks is concerned. Older, child-free, deeply loyal to Paleo and determined to find a sunbed and umbrella - which is very tricky this year if they want to be in the naturist zone! The September thing has been recorded elsewhere in the blog, but what is striking this year is the shortfall of umbrellas. In charge this season is Yiannis' stepson - Boris (Bobby) from Northern Macedonia. He gets a hard time over this, as there are swathes of sand without any kit, and there are piles of unused beds. The reason is that erosion of sand has left so little on top of rock that further umbrellas cannot be buried sufficiently. There is also the issue of spacing for compliance this season.  He has also - in spite of it being well ultra vires - defended our tree spot and explained our situation to angry folk!

The heatwave is now a distant memory! But there has been a run of days with high and forceful marine waves! This has kept Ruth - at least - out of the sea for fear of being knocked over. We have seen several falls of this type, but some people never learn! Hassan was back after quite an interlude and produced a sand sculpture with two of his favourite subjects: a lion being cuddled by a young woman. It was destroyed overnight by the waves, and he is now unlikely to create any more this season! 

And finally a tribute to The Wave taverna (To Kyma) which hosted a party of 23 for Ju's 65th birthday. Many of us went for the fresh fish for which in Greyrocks' opinion this place is top of the pile (with some real "sharks" around)!

During the meal the strolling players came onto the terrace to sing and dance, and after it we  were entertained by Rainer's boys, and then Charlie. A lovely warm gathering of friends of long standing, taking place on the coldest evening this season!