Saturday 5 June 2010

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.