Day 122: 12/10/17 Porquerolles to Agay

AJ woke early so after I had convinced AJ to get his English out of the way Patrick also got up and got ready for off. Patrick and AJ raised the anchor whilst I looked at the rather large boat doing pirouettes in the bay and tried to work out a way to extricate ourselves without getting in its way. Once the ferry had passed it became clear that the large sailing? vessel Med 2 was anchoring and we were safe to motor out.

Once we were out of the bay AJ requested times tables songs and his trusty stick to use as an air guitar... I was feeling very hopeful about homeschool.

 Shortly we saw another large sailing vessel but this time with sails up. It was to be a morning of interesting vessel sightings.

Esmé eventually surfaced and I made porridge for breakfast. We'd got into the habit of having fresh bread for breakfast from the Port Napoleon restaurant so our first meal of the day was seeing some change!

The next strange sighting loomed in the distance. I saw cross trees and suggested it was a minesweeper, Patrick laughed and said a fishing boat. Well it definitely wasn't a fishing boat! In fact I suspect I got a bit too close!

Shortly after we saw a Turkish version, followed by many other warships.... we quickly checked the news to see if there was something happening that we should have known about!

After a light lunch Esmé and I used her birthday plasticine to make a model of the earth. We looked in a book to see all the different layers and used different coloured plasticine to model this. Tomorrow we will cut into it like in the picture!

Into a bay "Agay" which was supposed to have moorings in and a water taxi, but in reality had none. I guess they have been taken out for winter. We motored around surveying the area before dropping our anchor, as we were letting out chain Patrick saw the remains of one of the mooring buoys under the anchor chain so we pulled the anchor up again and motored to the other side of the bay to see if there was more space there. Neither of us were impressed and were talking through our options when we saw some boats leave the original anchorage. We motored over and dropped our hook. A little bit close to a catamaran but not too bad, although a little embarrassing as the evening drew on and all the other boats left. Never mind, we have a manual windless so we weren't close enough to consider re-anchoring.

Both kids tried a swim but bailed out after putting a toe in the water. So we tried a little fishing (resulted in feeding the fish but no bites) and then dinner.

Games followed and we endured AJ's devastation as he didn't do as well as he wanted. Then stargazing before bed!