Where is this?

With pleasure.
This image of an infamous vessel (from the spanish point of view) was taken in October 2007 when forcedly entering a harbour closely related with my last teaser.
Which ones are the boat and the harbour?

Cheers.

 

OK, I was not very lucky with my previous post. Even Masalai didn't answer.
Port was Algeciras in southern Spain and the boat the one which lately stolen a full load of gold from an spanish galeon creating a diplomatic issue and international courts sueing.

Now a new teaser:
I'm working in the supervising of the installation of three experimental mussel farms my company has sold the equipment and materials for. The system is from SmartFarm in Norway (www.smartfarm.no) and the mooring for the navigational buoys from Hazelett Marine in the USA (www.hazelettmarine.com). We are using the harbour in the image as a base.

Anyone dares to guess what the harbour is and where is it?

Cheers

 

Googling indicates a ferry service running between Portugal, Madeira and the Canary Islands, and having never been in that neck of the woods guess at Canary Islands (less likelihood of polluted waters and a landmass there running E/W - Google earth is not available at the moment...

In the Canary Islands, ferries operate between Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma. - one of these places?

http://www.directferries.co.uk/naviera_armas.htm

 

OOH OOH OOH! Please sir, please sir, I know.

But sadly, I'm not allowed to cheat, so I can't tell any of you where Guillermo is.

Woof woof.

Perry

Yep, Brian got it with his scatter gun approach,but he'll have to narrow it down a bit.

 

I can't - no google earth - so no way to verify or confirm which port is in that picture.... Call it Pericles, for If I fluke it I will hand it back to Guillermo, to test our memories (in my case google & cartography)...

I usually need a distinguishing feature to facilitate the search....

 

Mmmmm....a lot of goats around here. And very nice goat cheese!

Cheers.

 

um wot do the goats eat to produce this milk from which the cheese is made)
dont know if you know this but I was heavily involved in building mussel harvesting vessels, in NZ, CAPITAL OF FARMING MUSSELS, the NZ green lipped mussel is the tastiest seafood I have ever eaten

 

Guillermo is a travelling man at the moment and he explained in an email what he is doing and where he is, so I cannot enter the competition. With any luck, he will be dining tonight on clams and mussels steamed in olive oil, garlic. bay leaves, a little flour and dry white wine.

Strewth, I've just had a couple of grilled rosemary and thyme pork sausage with English mustard for breakfast and I'm still thinking of even more delights.

Perry

 

mate are you thick! ONLY WAY COOK MUSSELS IS ON A BIT OF TIN OVER A WOOD FIRE, TIL THEY OPEN, THEN VINEGER AND pepper

 

Bloody hell:!:

You diggers:!: Burned fingers and hands when you scoop up the over cooked delicacies and drop them in the sand. Grit in the teeth, possible food poisoning, because you left out the garlic which acts as antiseptic and the bay leaves and dry white wine, because they have panache:!:

Vinegar:?: Sarsons brown malt I suppose:?: It won't be freshly ground black pepper, but the grey powder you get by shaking a plastic pot:?: And where's the sea salt:?:

You are going to deny all this, because you will claim that you all know enough to use a piece of wood to turn your food over and that seaweed makes a very fine platter. It won't wash Stu:!: I can hear you turning to your mates right now and saying "Stone the crows blokes. The whingeing Pom's bloody right for once."

Ah, get back to your scrumptious wines and gorgeous weather, We don't need your sympathy. We Poms have got our pride, y'know. That's all we've bloody got left

Best wishes,

Perry

 

Right off boats, but this transcends the subject. Watch open mouthed like me.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCbkBfdBrQ

Perry

 

Is it Porto Santa? Harbour looks similar but ferry doesn't.

 

Harbour name is a two words one, meaning something like 'sandy point'. The place is one of the the Canary islands, of course. The island inhabitants are called 'majoreros'. And these are more than enough clues.

By the way: I'm sorry but the mussel capital of the world is Vilagarcía de Arousa, where I have my office. In Galicia we produce around 300.000 tons a year and the Ría of Vilagarcía alone produces almost half of that. And the best way to cook mussels is to put them in a boiling pan with absolutely nothing else (not even water) and then put it on the fire just till they open. Then eat them with a couple drops of fresh lemon on each one.

Cheers.

 

no no capital is Havelock in Marlborough sound NZ, they export far more than that) this is small one I was project manager for the new build, , but gave the job to bos and carr
Mussel power, i will find the figures and eat my hat if I am wrong
see this, many photos you Spaniards can learn)http://www.nzte.govt.nz/common/files/fbtaskforce-aquaculture.pdf
whoops I am wrong!! only 94000 tonne, but they taste better and we do it better)
During the 1970s mussels had been exported to the United States as a powdered health supplement to relieve arthritis symptoms. This market collapsed overnight in 1981, when stringent US drug legislation controls were placed on the powder. Subsequently, extracts from mussels were developed in New Zealand, where they continue to be marketed as health products.
Export

In the mid-1980s fresh green-lipped mussels were cheap and plentiful in New Zealand supermarkets, and the industry turned its attention to developing reliable export markets.

Frozen mussels in half shells became the dominant export item, patented with the trade name NZ Greenshell Mussels. By 2000 the industry was booming: mussels were New Zealand’s second most important seafood export, with sales of $170 million to over 60 countries. About 1,500 people were directly involved with mussel production on marine farms located predominantly in the Marlborough and Coromandel regions.

 

Morro Jable in Fuerteventura? I was there one day about 18 months back. When I went on the beach, I turned the wrong direction at the lighthouse. It was all a bit much for an innocent Scot.

http://www.sunnyfuerteventura.com/morro-jable/

Looks like the same ferry pictured here