We arrived at Port Ghalib at approximately 6:30 a.m. It took the morning to check in and whatnot.

We initially moored quayside while the various officials joined us. After all of the official stuff had been completed, we were led to the place where we would med moor. This was going to be our first attempt at med mooring so we didn’t know what to expect. We soon learned that the port was sending five guys and a tender to assist. (Well, they actually did all of it, except for the captain’s part, which Michael did.) It was kind of comical because it took quite some time and a fair amount of yelling among the dock guys. After all was said and done, we had two lines off our bow to the mooring ball and a total of five lines off our stern to three bollards. We don’t have a passerelle so we are “renting” a piece of board from the port. Actually, if we had just moored closer to shore we could have stepped off and on, but since we didn’t manage the lines, we are walking the plank, which is completely fine.

We took it pretty easy in the afternoon since we were both a bit tired. We also planned to go out to eat and listen to live music in the evening, so taking it easy seemed a good choice on a couple of fronts.

We learned fairly quickly that we weren’t alone on the boat. When Michael came up from his nap a cat was on our counter. It had eaten through the plastic and was having a snack of our breadsticks. Michael shooed it away . . . and we tossed the breadsticks. (This would not be the first time a feral cat decided to visit our boat during our stay at Port Ghalib.)

The restaurant was lovely and the music was superb!!! I am not sure if we enjoyed it more because we hadn’t had a night out since September 13, or if it was just that good, but we enjoyed ourselves tremendously nonetheless.

Here are a few shots of the coast and the entrance to Port Ghalib as well as our first night “out on the town” for too long.