Where has the week gone

The week with Abbie has flown by,we showed her the delights of Olbia on the night she arrived, and there isactually quite a nice little holiday market with the usual jewellery, arts andcrafts plus the mandatory visit to the ice cream parlour.  The next day we had a reasonable sail, firstthing we motored whilst the wind built and then the poor motor was back on withabout 5 miles to go when the wind dropped off. Another night at anchor in Liscia di Vacca with another impressive boatin the anchorage.

The next morning we headed to Palau to fillup with water – it is free J and then onto revisit Cala Francesa where we all headed infor a swim. 

Cala Francesa

One night anchored here and we (Mark & I whilst Abbie slept) had a lovely sail the 4 miles to Dead Mans Passage which is an idyllic anchorage in the north islands. The waters are crystal clear and once you get in close to the rocks there are a huge array of fish and lots of them on a larger scale than we have seen, one bream must have been 14 inches, he would have made a nice dinner J. We had a  great time snorkelling and were lucky to have lights winds.  This anchorage does get extremely busy which isn’t surprising as it is now July but since all those boats are supposed to have a permits they must make a significant amount of money.

After 5 days stepping only on thebeach we sailed to Maddalena town which was only 5 miles and we had a nicebreeze.  Firstly passing pink beach, whichis on Isola Budelli which cannot be accessed even if swimming, it did look quite pretty butnot sure it looked pink.

Pink beach (not so pink but still pretty)

Abbie was also very pleased as wefinally spotted some dolphins, only a brief glimpse but still exciting. We wentinto the Cala Gavetta marina and then headed in to have a look around thetown.  Pretty place with plenty of icecream parlours so we had to indulge.

mmmmmm ice cream

Maddalena town

Maddalena town

But being in the town was far toohot and after upsetting the marina staff by telling them we were not going tostay we headed out to find ourselves so sea to swim in! After weaving throughabout 50 dinghies we were able to get onto a buoy in Porto Palma, Caprera andfinally jump in and cool off.