It was good that we caught up with
our sleep when we had a chance as the next 48 hours were windy and with Cala
Taulera so busy it was like bumper boats! The first night when the wind came up
to around 25 knots Mark decided to take a look on deck, confident in our anchor
but not so sure about others. Things
seemed ok particularly as half the anchorage was awake and on deck and doing
the same. Within minutes of getting back
to bed we hear a dingy motoring close to us and some shouting, back on deck and
a 40 foot boat had dragged their anchor out into the channel and within a few
feet of us. Neither of us were happy to
go back to bed and in the hour they took to get re-anchored (wind howling
around them) other boats were dragging their anchors all over the anchorage and
as there were around 40 boats anchored everyone was pretty close – when we
anchored here in the Spring there were 4 boats!
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| Boats everywhere in Cala Taluera |
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| More boats and the glass bottom boat heading towards us |
We headed back to bed but were up
several times that night and were glad for the sun to come up, but the wind
continued so we were stuck on the boat.
The next night we had a repeat of the previous night, we had a new boat
in front of us and Mark was up at various points during the night watching them
drag very close to us but luckily it seemed the skipper sat in the cockpit the
majority of the night and finally re-anchored in the early hours – I expect he
wanted some sleep!
We finally managed to get off the
boat on the Monday afternoon (arrived Saturday) and were disappointed that we
had not managed to see friends in Fornells and they were leaving the following
day. So we cracked on with our domestics
and hoped to be able to leave Mahon
now the weather was more settled.
With a South westerly breeze we
headed north round the coast to Es Grau, lucky to have some wind and had a nice
sail. Again we had enjoyed a stay here
in the spring and knew it would be busy but were still surprised, there had
been us and 1 other boat when we visited previously now there were around 50
boats!! But it is still a beautiful place, lovely clear water and enough space
to take that many boats.
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| Es Grau |
Was a bit grey here and even had a
thunder storm over night. We had 2
nights before we headed back to Mahon where we
planned to stop to get fuel and water (had not filled up since Sardinia ). We had
a stunning sailing back, with Mark loving every minute of catching and passing the
(larger) German boat ahead of us. The
forecast was for 12 knots northerly we had 20-25 northerly!
After getting fuel and finding we
could fill up water for free – which is a great bonus for us especially in the
Balearics where things can be expensive.
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| Cala Taluera at sunset |
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