Its amazing just how close Africa is to Gibraltar. The photo above shows the northern coast of Africa at the top of the photo. I always thought it would be so much further away. Separated by a bit of water the two different continents are two different worlds apart: economically, socially, politically, beliefs, behaviors, languages, are all very different.

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Did a big deep clean in the morning before John arrived to make sure that the boat was presentable and then went to the top of the rock via cable car. While you waited to board the cable car you are presented with a number of posters warning you about the monkeys at the top. There’s crazy monkeys up there we were warned that will fight you and steal from you just as mush as they fight and steal amongst themselves. Women were told to take any jewelry, ear rings or bling off them and put them in their pockets or bags otherwise they might be ripped off them.

They were not wrong. The monkey’s up top were very crazy. They chased each other for any scraps of food that anyone had given them. And one of them also was chased up the side of a building about 30 feet, by some older more aggressive ones, and then fell right down onto the concrete. Splat! Hit with enough force that a couple of poops fell out of him. I thought he must have some serious internal injuries, but no. It took off running. He didn’t seem to be harmed. We were warned often not to get near them, not to give them anything. They were everywhere. They were so high up scurrying over the rocks with a 426 m (1,398 ft) drop to the bottom below.

We also saw from the top a sinking vessel on the east side surrounded by oil booms, buoys and the Coast Guard.

Great restaurants at the Queensway marina, and had dinner with our new crewmate for the leg down to the Canary islands ‘John Thames’.