emandvee44
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I have posted this in the Liveaboard link although I appreciate that it is of interest to a wider audience.
We visited Culatra a few days ago, by ferry with the intention of finding out for ourselves ( and for others) what developments are going on.
There were 22 yachts at anchor off the village, some remainers
from the Summer. ‘Kleen Breeze’ (20m Harry Proa design) is no longer there.
Coming off the ferry we saw a large number of square concrete slabs on the beach – perhaps a couple of hundred which appeared to be the same dimensions as those existing and forming the pathways through the village.
The old ‘bus shelter’ which was next to the ticket office has gone, well not exactly – the pieces of it are now in two skips.
The notice beside the pathway just before the church states that the improvement project will cost €1.23m.
The waterfront between the corrugated steel arms of the present ‘marina’ has been cleared of all the old nets and other rubbish.
Diggers were working in the area in front of the church, between the pathway and the harbour, installing cable conduits?
There was a (Spanish) landing craft delivering supplies / materials onto the beach between the harbour and ferry jetty.
We walked over to the lagoon immediately East of the village and noted that some of the fence posts across the entrance have been pulled out. Our local informant says that a bridge is to be built across the lagoon entrance.
The yachts and catamarans previously moored on and around ‘the bank’ just outside the lagoon have all moved further West, actually West of the ‘yellow buoy’ – yes it does exist as you can see.
The reason for the move is apparently because a new harbour is to be built immediately East of the existing, and some of the yachts were in the way.
There is some demolition of houses in the Hangares village -we actually saw that taking place.
Michael.
We visited Culatra a few days ago, by ferry with the intention of finding out for ourselves ( and for others) what developments are going on.
There were 22 yachts at anchor off the village, some remainers
from the Summer. ‘Kleen Breeze’ (20m Harry Proa design) is no longer there.Coming off the ferry we saw a large number of square concrete slabs on the beach – perhaps a couple of hundred which appeared to be the same dimensions as those existing and forming the pathways through the village.
The old ‘bus shelter’ which was next to the ticket office has gone, well not exactly – the pieces of it are now in two skips.
The notice beside the pathway just before the church states that the improvement project will cost €1.23m.
The waterfront between the corrugated steel arms of the present ‘marina’ has been cleared of all the old nets and other rubbish.
Diggers were working in the area in front of the church, between the pathway and the harbour, installing cable conduits?
There was a (Spanish) landing craft delivering supplies / materials onto the beach between the harbour and ferry jetty.
We walked over to the lagoon immediately East of the village and noted that some of the fence posts across the entrance have been pulled out. Our local informant says that a bridge is to be built across the lagoon entrance.
The yachts and catamarans previously moored on and around ‘the bank’ just outside the lagoon have all moved further West, actually West of the ‘yellow buoy’ – yes it does exist as you can see.
The reason for the move is apparently because a new harbour is to be built immediately East of the existing, and some of the yachts were in the way.
There is some demolition of houses in the Hangares village -we actually saw that taking place.
Michael.
