After an eventful night at an anchorage at the mouth of the Mahon river – we dragged in weed at 2 am and ended up just barely on a rock under the lighthouse – we motored off rather than try to re anchor and ended up back at Cala Gandala. From here we took the bus to Ciutadela again the very attractive town that used to be the old capital. Did a bit of supermarket shopping and exchanged a gas bottle. David and Mary will probably go to Tunisia before us so that’s good, they can check out the marina etc.
A southerly looked likely to set in so we got ourselves round to Colom again then on to Fornells where we took a buoy for 4 days. We got back from town to find a note on our dinghy davits from an Australian couple on a Bali 4.5 called Craig and Nellie. We went over to say hi and ended up with drinks, and met again the next day for lunch. They are from near the Gold Coast. Luckily we mentioned that they might meet “Adventurous” in their travels around the island as they had an event the morning after they all met where Craig and Nellies “Lomana” was T boned by a badly anchored boat in the same bay that we dragged (very poor holding in weed and too crowded to let out enough chain) and Dave was able to swim over and help.
Over the next week or so we saw quite a bit of the “Lomanas” as we both came and went from various Calas – lots of fun. They will be in Australia at Christmas so we will see them then too. It’s been a good opportunity to check out different places in different winds for when Mark, Annabelle, David and Lucy arrive for a week at the end of August.
We then checked out very pretty Binabeca and Cala Torret where we hadn’t been before. Excellent protection from all but some South and East. they are both the prettiest little towns and very clean and tidy – seem quite affluent areas. Lots of tiny winding streets some only a shoulder width wide. I missed taking some photos as my phone was on charge back on the boat! Next time.
