More Menorca

Here we are in another country with my parents paying us a visit, they were saddled with bringing us a whole load of boat bits which included the critical item of our new instruments which we were desperate to have before we can move on. 

Display for our super new Garmin instruments

Really nice to spend some time with my mum and dad and we also were able to see a bit more of the island.  So where did we go - Biniancolla Vell was a really pretty white wash village with little bars and restaurant tucked away, good for a relaxing drink. 

Biniancolla Vell

Son Bou one of the main tourist resorts has with long sandy beach back by a large hotel (on Menorca's scale of low rise hotels) with its shallow waters it looked like it was a popular beach with the locals at the weekend.  

Son Bou Beach

We also ventured back up to the highest point on the island to admire the views, it was a beautiful clear day so could see the entire island.

Mark, Mum and Dad at highest point

We drove out to Fornells, funny how peaceful and beautiful it seemed without any wind!  But there were still only 1 or 2 boats anchored.  We went on to Es Grau as we were really keen for mum and dad to see the nature reserve unfortunately no tortoise this time but we did some baby Coots which was nice.

Baby Coots

Amanda, Mum & Dad at Es Grau

The next day whilst mum and dad visited La Mola Mark fitted the instruments he made a start the night before by taking up floor boards and taking down ceilings! The first exciting step was fitting the transducer, basically this is the instrument which measures the depth of the water so it fits into a hole in the boat and to fit the new one we had to remove the existing one which involved a fountain of water gushing into the boat, it was a bit of a shock! Mark spent over a day fitting all the kit which in addition to the depth included a wind instrument on top of the mast so he also spent a couple of hours at the top of the mast which is especially fun when a glass bottom tourist boat passes and cause a wave to roll through the anchorage J  Good news is it is all fitted and is working, hurrah!!

The final day with mum and dad and we went to a couple more lovely places along the South coast first we stopped at Cala Porter which I had expected to be quite a large resort but again it was small.  It was very hilly with a lovely sandy beach surrounded by cliffs, it would have made a lovely anchorage but not sheltered from the southerly swell or wind.

Beach at Cala Porter

We then drove further along the South coast of the island to Cala Galdana, this again is another tourist resort with a few large hotels which all look very nice.  The Cala would make a lovely anchorage surrounded by high cliffs and the water was crystal clear.  We were treated to a lovely lunch overlooking the beach.

Cala Galdana

Walk around headland at Cala Galdana

Overlooking beach at Cala Galdana

Sad to say another goodbye but had a lovely few days which we didn't expect to get (we were supposed to have left for Sardinia).