Sailing Quinta do Lorde to Funchal Marina

Unexpectedly Funchal Marina confirmed that they had a berth for us in their marina, so left Quinta do Lorde at 1300 hrs 3rd June 2016 and after 3 hours motoring in calm seas, arrived in Funchal. Filled diesel tank at the waiting berth and were then helped into our berth on C pontoon

 

 

 

 

Short circular walk from Quinta do Lorde Marina 2 June 2016

Having spent the day nursing colds, decided late afternoon to get some fresh air and have a bit of exercise and  to use our newly downloaded ViewRanger hiking map App to blaze a new circular trail close to the marina.

 

We found the ViewRanger App very useful for hiking on Gran Canaria as it provides offline OS detailed maps and uses the builtin Ipad GPS to show your position at all times - very usefful particularly when on unmarked trails. If also has the function of plotting ones track on the map.

Below, the thin black line shows our actual track with arrows indicating the direction we walked.

 

After leaving the marina, we walked along the road to the car park (marked P on map) for Baia da Abra and a few meters along the trail to the São Lourenco Peninsular we turned left onto an unmarked track. For the next 500 m the trail was a bit vague

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Eventually reached the edge of the cliffs then walked around the fence protecting the airport related radio station

 

 

Views of Quinta do Lorde

The airport radio stationo

 

Mirador

 

 

This pleasant little walk was about 6 km and took about 2 hrs