38:38.534N  00:04.656E  Calpe

13.9.09.     18 miles sailed

A down wind sail across the long bay to a really beautiful place, Calpe.  Still some developments of blocks of apartments and large hotels.  Along the way we crossed the Greenwich Meridian and we are now in the Eastern half of the world.   The town is situated on either side of a large rock that looks like a mini rock of Gibraltar.  The spectacular rock called Penon de Ifach.  The volcanic rock rises 990 feet above sea level and it is now a nature reserve, from the top of which on a clear day you can see the island of Ibiza.  We anchored on the North side of the rock in the most amazing gin clear water.  Soon the fish gathered around us waiting for whatever we threw into the water.  A few bread sticks made them behave like a school of piranha. The late afternoon developed into one of natures firework displays with thunder storms all around us over the land and over the sea.  Some rain fell on us but the centre of the heavy squall thunder storms were mainly over the mountains a little inland.