Saturday 13th August - Beziers to Agde

Poor Henk - he has woken up with severe tummy trouble!  Since we all had Steak Tartare (raw beef) last night not too surprising perhaps.  Skip was not feeling 100% but not too bad and Crew was as right as ninepence but had only eaten half of her meal!  Henk was not well enough so Skip said that we would carry on to Agde and wait for him to catch up there.  We left at 10.30 and had a very pleasant run to Agde with just one other boat under a flawless blue sky with a decent amount of breeze. On arriving in Agde, we thought we would try our luck in the Canalous hire base for starters but, no luck......the port was full.  So we started to look for a suitable place to moor......again, everywhere 'No Parking' signs - to be expected in August I guess!!  We eventually moored on a scruffy bank - not much chance of Crew getting off the boat easily to sample the delights of Agde!  So a relaxed afternoon, apart from the many small hire boats speeding past us and very inexperienced large hire boats seemingly trying to unseat us from our mooring - we are tied onto our spikes, driven into fairly sandy soil (the Mediterranean is only a couple of miles away!).  As we were enjoying our aperitifs, around 7.30, a large passenger boat passed - very slowly I have to say but the undertow was such that it took our stern spike straight out!  Luckily Skip was very quick on the uptake and sprang into action, knocking over his (empty) beer bottle in the process!  We managed to re- position the spike and normality was resumed!  We had a late salad supper (too hot in that galley for Crew!) and, finally the boat traffic ceased, leaving us in peace and quiet at last!  There was some kind of music thing going on in the town but since it is pitch dark here, getting there would be rather difficult and, judging by the sound of the music......not worth the effort!!  So a couple of our own CDs and bed!

4 locks. 23 km  4 hours