Palma de Mallorca and Passage to Gibraltar - 25 September
Dearloves
Sun 25 Sep 2005 01:38
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First just a few final pictures of Cabrera - it was
such an lovely place!
 Keoma on her mooring
 View from Lighthouse
 View of Castle from
Lighthouse
 Sea Anenome
 Balearic Lizard (only found on
Cabrera)
 Arriving in Palma
We had a hectic couple of days in Palma - we wanted
to replace the sail batten that we had lost as well as buy other things that we
would need for the Atlantic crossing. Palma is famous for its chandlers
and we found most of the things on the shopping list, some of which were
quite obscure. We left Palma on Friday afternoon for the long passage to
Gibraltar. Having looked at the pilot book I reached the conclusion that
there are not many places on Ibiza that are unspoilt and as we wouldn't be
able to join in the nightlife (with the children in tow) we decided to give
Ibiza a miss. We are also very keen to get to Gibraltar, which we are
looking forward to visiting and also to get some miles under the keel on our
route to the Canaries for the start of the ARC.
 View of Cathedral from
Keoma
 Alice and Pip with a
statue
  Beautiful park
 Pip
As I write we are around 30 miles off Cartegena, in
Southern Spain. We have sailed around 200 miles of the route to Gibraltar
- only 270 to go! Yesterday at twilight we were joined by 3 bottlenose
dolphins (sorry, no pictures as I didn't want to camera flash them) which swam
at the bow for around 15 minutes. We also saw amazing phosphosence in the
water last night - luminous green balls of algae passing the
boat.
So far the sea has been quite flat and there has
not been much wind. The picture below isn't very exciting but it
does help to illustrate what it is like! The view is only sea
and sky.
 Sea View
 Charlie with a beard!
This evening we caught a tuna, which was very
exciting. We will be eating it tomorrow night.
 Showing off the catch
 Gasping for a drink
 Watching closely
We also crossed the Greenwich meridian (860 miles
south of London) this evening.
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