026: Sailing and Anchoring in Ibiza and Woody tries Clickbait to Boost the Video Blogs!
November 25, 2018 by Mothership Adrift Travel and Sailing | Language: EN Play Time: 00:38:53 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
Marinas in Ibiza are expensive so the only way to get water is to pay for a 30 minute slot and go like crazy to get everything plugged in, charged up, filled up and washed down! The shops are further away so that means a trip on the dinghy and a walk up the hill, and when you’ve got lot of guests arriving, that’s a BIG task!
And we had a lot of guests this summer, starting with the kids’ uncle John, his partner Helga and cousin Jacob. Then typically, as we were leaving to go sailing around the Island of Ibiza the battery charger stopped charging. We spend several days trying to fix it finally, it had to be returned to the UK for repair. However, with very diligent battery management we decided to carry on.
So, we eventually headed up the coast to Benirras, a lovely bay with the famous Queen Victoria Rock, where drumming and yoga on the beach is a daily routine. It’s also a great spot to watch the amazing sunsets. We also decided to have a belated birthday party here for the kids after a somewhat subdued celebration in Tunisia. It also happened to be Alex’s birthday too so a triple celebration was called for.
After probably too much beer, Woody decided to become clickbait to lift our YouTube viewing figures and manfully donned a fancy bra in a vain attempt to boost our subscriber base.. watch this space for results!
Off to somewhere less crowded next so we headed for Tamalago, where we encountered jelly fish and naked paddle boarders. As no-one could remember the name of the island we christened it Jellyfish Bay before continuing down the east coast of Ibiza to Cala Llonga where jumping off rocks all day became the kids favourite sport!
Cala Talamanca was our final stop on this leg where we went ashore to explore Ibiza old town and do a guest swap, because uncle John, Helga and Jacob were leaving and our friend Heidi was arriving with her two kids. at the top of Ibiza old town there’s an amazing view of the bay with its busy port and many super yachts!
As we’d explored North of the island it was time to go South and we found a beautiful anchorage in the National Park area. In the Balearic islands you have to pay special attention to where you anchor because of the protected poseidonia sea grass. But no matter how carefully you lay your anchor, when the wind changes and the boast swings around if your chain touches the poseidonia, you’re asked to re-anchor by the ‘plant police’ – regular patrols checking up on you! So we dived on the anchor several times to check.. but only to spotted more problems like the chain wrapped around a rock and chipped anti-foul. With the adults pre-occupied, the kids had a taste of freedom and went exploring and diving themselves. However, with freedom comes an element of risk, and Rowan had a nasty sting from a jellyfish that afternoon, so they kids turned their attention to the BBQ, grill.
Formentera is the fourth Balearic island and we passed a lot of super yachts on the way there. Whereas Ibiza is all mountains, rocks and greenery, Formentera is sandy beaches and turquoise water – absolutely beautiful. Luckily, we also found a shop to reprovision, because with only one small fridge and lots of guests, we had very little ingredients for our regular Friday pizza and movie night!
We STILL haven’t got our watermaker up and running so with nowhere to fill up in Formentera we had to be careful with our water, so the shower water goes in a bucket that is then used to rinse the costumes and snorkelling gear before finally utilised to rinse dinner plates! WE obviously wash up in clean water afterwards though!
Our penultimate stop was Cala Tarida before finally heading back to San Antonio for Heidi and her kids’ last night. Sadly it was time to say goodbye.. and wait for our next guests to arrive!
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