Puerto Pollenca 39:54.22N 03:05.47E
Red Skies
David Alexander
Wed 8 Jun 2011 07:44
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Monday 6th June. Yesterday we left Porto
Cristo and mostly motored the 36 miles to Puerto Pollenca. The scenery on the
way was stunning, with mountainous backdrop to small coves - some touristy, but
the majority with just a sandy beach and perhaps a small bar. The Bay of
Pollenca is lovely too; although bthe coastal strip is well populated, the hills
and mountains behind are not - just rock and scrub.
We went ashore and, to D's delight, found an
excellent ferreteria/chandlers, so we came back laden with more fenders for the
dinghy and sundry bits of ironmongery and chain. We also found a water hose
connector for the special spigots that appear to be on all the Port Authority
quays, for which one normally borrows one with a deposit (around 20 euros) - not
a problem unless you want to leave before the office opens.
D had another enjoyable dinghy sail around the bay
and then spent the rest of the afternoon fitting the aforementioned fenders to
the dinghy to ensure it is knock-proof when tied up against quay walls or rocky
outcrops etc. It now looks like a tender/flubber hybrid - the perfect
solution.
 Anchorage outside Pollenca marina (to left) with
town behind
 Another view from our anchored boat
Tuesday 7th June. One interesting
feature here is that part of the bay and shoreline is taken over by the Navy,
who have an R&R place here with a private beach, small harbour and
nice-looking accomodation. There is also a sea-plane hanger and take-off and
landing strip in the bay identified on the charts. Today they were practising
picking up water and dropping it on a target. (We have some movie shots of this
but we have not mastered the technology with us to download stills into this
blog). There have been some recent forest fires in Ibiza, which we emphasises
the need for this type of competence.
After a sunny morning, the predicted rain and
thunder arrived (at least it was predicted by one of the weather forecasts we
monitor - they normally are all at variance with one another) and it rained
stair-rods. D has bailed out about 6" depth of water from the dinghy - only for
it to start raining again. With the lightening and thunder encroaching, we have
put the spare VHF and GPS in the microwave just in
case.
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