Mainland Spain

Left Ibiza at 6 am heading for Denia in spain. Nice broad reach most of the way with a smooth sea. 7 miles from spain the depth alarm went of the depth had gone from 700m to only 2.4m (and the boat draws 2m) Checked the charts, checked the computer ??? this went on for about half an hour with us reducing sail and speed. Then the reason became clear,, a Huge Fin whale was under the boat (probably trying to make friends with our boat) it headed south. Saw another sunfish then gale force 6 as we made land. A bit to much exitement for one day....

Ibiza

Sailed from andratx to Ibiza, two nights at anchor then into Ibiza town (lovely) saw dolphins, and a sunfish on the way over. Sailed to ESplamor island, deserted and very nice. Sailed to San Antonio (YUK) through thunder and lightning.

Hi, since the last post we sailed to Cabera up to Minorca,back to palma to pick up aunty Karen & Robert then had a gentle cruise to Andratx.

Portal Vells

We anchored at portal Vells outside the ancient tombes. After a lunch we took a torch and explored inside. Nicola was OK until a bat screached next to her!
Nicola had a nice swim and we had dinner here.

The wind picked up later so we headed around to Magaluf beach to spend the night. (something Johnys probably done before!)

Dolphins

we left santa ponca to have dolphins swimming under the boat, a very nice moment

First night at anchor

After cocktails at sunset we had our first night at anchor. It wasnt the best nights sleep we had had as we kept waking to look out of the windows to see that we hadnt moved. When we woke up and went on deck it was like a mill pond and as we looked under the boat we could see dozens of fish. Alex correctly identified the Barracuda (from finding nemo) along with lots of white bream. We had also swung around and were directly above our anchor that was well set in. We were of Santa Ponca beach and william with the binoculars found the McDonalds!

Dinner!

The starter for this evening was line caught saddle bream pan fried with Mallorcan butter with a cold beer in a deserted cove in glorious sunshine. Not really rubbing it in!

We tried the new Rocna anchor today our old anchor would not dig in on the hard sandy seabed here in the med but the new one performed very well.
the sea temperature is still a bit low but that didnt stop the boys playing on the beach and in the water. Alex swam with me from the boat and william swam on my back.
Yesterday it was our last day with the hire car so we did some sightseeing and on to Magluf that was very English and to Nicky and Williams delight we saw a KFC just past the lap dancing bar. Very tastefull. The beach was good and the boys spent a couple of hours digging holes and filling the with sea water. More photos on the picasa site