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Went to visit the harbour master to pay.  An interesting character who use to be in the Russian fishing fleet and had fished all around the north of Scotland and had visited Ullapool. He informed us that we were the only English boat that had visited Nida this summer.   The Union Jack was flying in the marina on the flagstaff.  Unfortunately there was also a German one that had been up there the day before – towels and beaches comes to mind.

We hired mountain bikes and set off to ride along the excellent cycle path that goes along the Curonian Spit.   A lovely ride part along the lagoon and part through the pine and birch woods.  After a stop in a nice cafe overlooking the Lagoon we went on a bit further a spent a short while on a small deserted beach and then headed back to Nida to complete a beautiful 20k round trip.  In the afternoon we went to explore the sand dunes behind Nida these are the highest on the spit at 50 metres.   At the top the sight was stunning.  Miles of sand just like a desert with the lagoon on one side and the Baltic shimmering on the other.  Quite awesome.

Late afternoon we sadly had to leave Nida to make our way back to Klaipeda and on for an overnight sail past Kalliningrad to our next country Poland.