Colombier is indeed a well-protected anchorage (in most conditions) and I slept well, waking up early and having breakfast with coffee while editing the pictures of the day before. I got the dive gear together and did a very nice shallow dive off the sides of the anchorage and around the corner and found a lot of fish life but the bottom itself was a bit barren. I dove for an hour and still had some air left, so I think I am getting better at managing my breathing underwater and handling the camera and buoyancy at the same time. I took 169 picture and whittled them down to a mere 40 pretty quickly by being relentless in removing similar and really “boring” pictures.
After lunch with the rest of the baguette bread, a refrigerated spicy Merguez sausage, some butter and the remainder of my Brie I decided it was time to get ashore for a little walk along the cliff side path. Since the swell was almost nonexistent on the beach, getting ashore was easy and I also had some help in pulling the dinghy high above the incoming tide waterline. I had taken my tripod and the big lens along and thought I’d try to get to the north side of the anchorage for a different view on things. There was a small track through the underbrush which quickly became impassable – it turns out that it was a goat track and if I were willing to crawl I could get through the thorns and brush but for normal human height I couldn’t get through. But I’d found an open place in the brush and took some photos, then returned and found a better path going to the top of the hill. It was a bit of a hike and I enjoyed the vistas but saw that the incoming tide was getting rather close to my dinghy and decided to return to the boat.
For dinner I was going to finish the Merguez with some fresh bread and took a prepared dough portion out to warm up and rise. It didn’t. Not for 2 hours. So I made pasta and decided to let the bread get a chance to rise during the evening hours and bake it for breakfast the next morning.
I did take a lot of pictures today, so this page is rather graphics-heavy so that all that effort didn’t go to waste.
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