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| Oualidia to Kaouki Beach - 145 miles |
Another sunny morning
but a cool wind. Moving on today so empty loo and load couple of cans
of water – we intend going to a campsite so no need to fill up. A
lot of vans leaving at the same time, but we've noticed this parking
seems to have a high turnover despite it being one of the better ones
we've found.
First leg along the
coast to Safi, a fairly industrial town but TomTom took us around
although it was very very busy. As we left we realised we had “lost”
our friends so after waiting a short while we turned round, only of
course to meet them coming the other way. Unfortunately they had had
a “coming together” of mirrors with a minibus, who didn't stop,
but managed to salvage enough to manage with the use of duct tape.
We'll try to get a replacement later.
Sebt des Gzoula is a
small town situated at the junction of a couple of major roads,
including the N1 which we were following. We arrived at lunchtime, on
market day and when a few long-distance buses were loading/unloading
– absolute typical Moroccan chaos and great fun to watch and
navigate through. It's moments like these that make our trips
memorable, may try and recover a clip off the dashcam.
Shortly after we
managed to buy some bread in a village and stopped for lunch.
Continued on to Essaouira, the N1 being pretty good for quite long
stretches although we had to watch for the occasional bad bits. Out
of interest we went down to the sea front to check out the old
guardian parking site but it was indeed closed with signs banning
motorhome parking. Shame as it was so handy for the city and the
alternatives are a good way out.
Backtracked, via an
unplanned diversion (in other words took a wrong turn!), to the large
Carrefour supermarket to stock up again as we'd planned to stay for a
number of days at our next stop. Which was Camping Kaouki Beach at
Sidi Kaouke about 15km south. A tiny seaside settlement, it's only
raison d'etre seemed to be the two or three camping areas, all
situated very close to the long sandy beach. We found a couple of
nice roomy pitches and settled in, meeting Jon and Sue, one of the
other couples we had crossed from Spain with.
Not a very big site, it
has good modern facilities and is kept spotlessly clean. A lovely
clean and sparkling swimming pool looked attractive in the now quite
hot sunshine, despite it being quite late in the day. The price, at
70 dirhams a night for more than 3 nights, is very good. Electricity
also available at 20 dirhams pn but with the fridge broken it was not
much use to us so we opted out – you can buy a lot of gas for 20
dirhams.
We intend to stay here
at least until the weekend as the weather forecast is good for at
least that far.
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