Story of a heatwave

Good evening everyone! This blog post is long overdue but we’ve been very busy with crazy partying in Mallorca and Ibiza (nope!)…

After spending a few days at the idyllic anchorage in the north of Mallorca shown in our last post, we moved further south along the Mallorcan coast to Cala Figuera. It’s a small town surrounding a natural bay and we were lucky to stay in the middle of the fisher harbor at a buoy:

Conveniently, Cala Figuera is also next to multiple climbing spots right by the sea! Due to the heatwave, we had to adopt the Spanish rhythm: we started the days early with a bit of climbing while the sun was still bearable then spent our afternoons swimming and napping and went for nice walks in the evening. That’s also where we first had a friend joining, but only for a day this time 😉

We then got a chance to verify all the cliches about party tourism in Mallorca (spoiler: they were all confirmed!) by spending a few days in Palma where we met Louis’ parents who are visiting for a week. But surprisingly, Palma has a very charming and lively city center and also a refreshing deep water soloing spot right by the city!

The trip to Ibiza was our chance to test out the boat with four people on board. We had Louis’s parents joining us during the night sail and had for the first time to bring our storage room back to its original purpose: a proper cabin… and it turns out we can fit a bike in our closet if necessary ^^

Our star seems to still be shining as the conditions of the sail were once again very pleasant – better than forecasted!

We are now going to be until Saturday in Ibiza (as always until the winds let us move further), doing our usual life: boat work, hiking/climbing, and visiting. Then we’ll move to mainland Spain but this time, we’ll be alone again for the next journey.

Our next appointment is in Cartagena (or Almeria) on the 5th of June. Hopefully, we should manage it just fine! We now have a weather window to cross the 75 nm to mainland Spain (~20h) and we then need winds to travel about 100 nm in 6 days to be on time for meeting our friends there 🙂