Life feels surreal at the moment. We wake up, look out the hatch and the sun is still shining or the rain is still pouring, the wind is still howling through the rigging and for a split second all seems normal and the world is just having a quiet moment because you can't hear the traffic, people chatting, kids playing in the park or the planes overhead. Then you remember life is so very very different living under Covid-19 lockdown.
Due to the virus all ports over the world have closed. There are varying levels of closure in countries from total closure for all recreational boating and commercial shipping to being allowed to anchor but not being allowed ashore with food deliveries being made to the boats, being allowed to anchor and only going ashore for the supermarket or medical reasons, being allowed to stay in marina's but not leaving, the list of varying levels of closure goes on and on. We are in Alcaidesa Marina. We are not allowed to leave unless we are travelling back to our home country. We have extended our berthing until 31st May as we were due to leave for the Balearic Islands on April 7th.
One of the berth holders Debbie started up a Facebook Group called the Alcaidesa Marina Amigos to help bring everyone together in a bid to help keep the virus out by sharing information.Paul another berth holder arranged for local businesses to supply and deliver to the marina, these included green grocer, butcher, baker, fishmonger, pharmacy and gas can also be organised so the need to go to a supermarket is almost non-existent.
This has created a lot of media interest and the marina has been on television and in the newspaper.
We talk to family in the UK and Canada and they are under similar restrictions but lucky for them not total lockdown as Spain is.
30th April 2020 - The death toll in Spain reached a high of over 900 and for several days over 850 people, the total as of today is over 24,543 deaths with 213k confirmed cases but the good news is over 113k are fully recovered. Worldwide 220k have died with over 3.2million confirmed cases but again 986k have recovered.
We wonder now how different life may be when this is all over. We doubt it will ever be the same again. Airlines are already reporting that it will be years before their full fleet are airborne again and have started to make mass redundancies. Supermarkets are set to keep the 2mtr social distance rule while some countries are said to be introducing perspex domes for beaches. They are saying it will the 'New Normal'. Life is going on but it's like something out of a movie.
Meanwhile, washing still needs to be done and we still need to eat - Dorade fish from the fishmonger baked in garlic, lemon & olive oil...yum yum!
We spend the time trying to finish all then jobs that we were going to do on route to the Mediterranean and Caribbean. This should at least mean we can just carry out maintenance on Cordelia and enjoy the non-sailing days just relaxing.
