This morning we enjoyed a sleep-in, then, after breakfast, Elaine dropped Roy ashore to look for a convenience store. Given that the closest grocery shop was 3 Km away along a motorway, he settled for a little shop in the campgrounds and managed to get a few provisions, including fruit, but was laughed at by the shop owner when he asked for chocolate. Apparently no one eats chocolate on the Island of Sardinia in the summer; it’s too hot! Roy’s timing was perfect, though, as the fresh fruit and freshly baked bread had just been unloaded.

Next activity was to relook at anchoring possibilities up the northeast and northern coasts of Sardinia and to find a possible staging anchorage for our sail to Spain, although we won’t be moving for another few days due to bad weather north of here, specifically between northern Sardinia and southern Corsica. We expect to feel the effects in the way of strong westerlies on Friday and Saturday. In the interim, we’re enjoying the protected anchorage we’re currently anchored in and working around all the inconveniences of getting ashore, including how to dispose of our garbage.

Although Elaine slept all afternoon, after dinner, we dinghied ashore, left the dinghy floating in the water, dropped off smaller bags of our garbage in the carpark bins and enjoyed a lovely long walk along the beach. Most of the beach revellers had departed for the day by then, but there was a wedding about to take place. Unfortunately neither of us had our phones with us, so we never captured any closeup photographs, but it was most unusual; all the guests were dressed in white and the bride arrived in a small traditional sailing yacht. The ceremony and reception took place at the 12.1 restaurant where we had lunch yesterday, but the beach area was also set up with table and chairs too. Of course, we had the music to contend with, but at least it was half decent and we actually recognised most of the songs; anything is better than the booming noise of techno-clubbing music.

A pretty sunset sealed our day.