Denia - 38:50:32N 0:07:23E
Red Skies
David Alexander
Fri 2 Oct 2009 07:07
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We left Calpe on Wednesday 30th September for a
reasonably short hop around the Cabo de la Nao and the Cabo de San
Antonio to Denia. We sailed for the first half hour and then the wind died
and we when we rounded the Cabo de la Nao it strengthened but was on the nose -
so another motoring trip.
 Cabo de San Antonio with Javea in the
background
 Javea with El Mongo behind
 Another view of Cabo de San Antonio and El
Mongo
We arrived in Denia at 2.00 pm but had spent
the previous 2 hours watching clouds building ahead of us, some very
ominous anvil shaped ones amongst them. No sooner had we tied up the rain
started and pelted down for the next hour - with the benefit that we didn't need
to wash the boat down. Once the rain had finished we explored Denia and
climbed to the top of the castle. We remarked that for a sailing trip we seemed
to be doing quite a lot of climbing!
Denia's new marina is of excellent quality and its
individual bathroom facilities are the best that we have come across.
Obviously they are seeking to keep it that way by having a 30 euro deposit
for the access swipe card.
 Denia with the castle in its midst
 Denia castle under some reconstruction
 View of Denia Port and Marina from
Castle
 Some of the old roofs seen from Denia's
Castle
The following morning we left for Valencia and
despite the forecast for showers had a pleasant sunny passage, albeit the wind
was from the NW, the very direction of our journey - so another motoring
experience. The scenery was absolutely splendid with a mountainous backdrop to
ribbon development along the coast. The recent storms had had the result
that the sea was littered with floating piles of sticks, literally for miles,
and hand steering was required to miss the worst of them. We wondered where all
these sticks, mostly bamboo, had been stacked for such large tonnages to
have been washed away by the storms. Also prevalent in huge numbers were
jelly fish - a feature that has been with us since we entered the Mediterranean
but no so obvious when the seas were choppy.
 Part of the coastline on the way to
Valencia
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