Location: Northern coast of Spain
Duration: 2 nights (25th – 27th July 2019)
Cost: Not Applicable
Sheltered anchorage in a small horseshoe bay. The bay provided an ideal location to rest up and await the stormy weather conditions in the Biscay Bay to abate. We weren’t the only one’s looking for a safe haven, when we awoke on the morning following our arrival a few other yachts had arrived and were anchored nearby. The holding is good, even with 30 knot plus winds coming off the hills. Be mindful of the swing with the tides and the wind, we swung 180 degrees through the night and an app like Anchor Lite is useful to alert you to drift.
The bay is located in a picturesque setting surrounded by hills, with the village and residential housing hugging the beachfront and harbour. Several local fishing and recreational craft were berthed close to the jetty or tied up to pylons or mooring buoys.
Access to the village or beach is via tender. The ‘harbour’ area is old with a rickety wooden jetty in place suitable only for small motor and sailing vessels and it is quite shallow near the jetty. Stone steps lead up to the roadside. The jetty is of wooden construction and joins a rock wall that separates the town from the marine industrial area. There are plenty of places to tie up a dinghy, however getting to the wall or jetty is not straight forward as there are long mooring lines everywhere just under the surface.
The quaint village has a small range of shops and internet access is available at a local café. We can’t comment on the availability of amenities such as launderette etc. as we were only there for a short time and had no need to access these. The harbour has a large breakwater which caters for bulk handling of stone material and fishing. We did not see a fuel dock. Lastly, as mentioned above if you do stopover here be mindful of strong winds that flow over the hills into the bay.