Blog 17: The Costa da Morte and Cape Finisterre
So at last we have almost reached the ‘corner’, i.e. the north-west tip of Spain which early explorers thought was the end of the earth – Cape Finisterre. But before that we have to negotiate the Costa da Morte, which translates from Galician as the ‘Coast of Death’! It is so named because there have been many shipwrecks along its treacherous rocky shore, which is exposed directly to the Atlantic Ocean. It stretches from just after A Coruña to Muros, beyond Cape Finisterre and has few harbours and little shelter. Unfortunately the forecast is not good enough for us to set out today – the Atlantic swell is still too high. But the marina in A Coruña is so ‘loppy’ when ships go past that we might as well go and anchor somewhere while we wait for the weather to improve – it’ll probably be calmer and certainly cheaper! It was quite rough even within the sheltered waters of the Ria in which A Coruña is situated, so we made the right decis...