Anchoring off Ibiza

Our first night on anchor was spent at Cala San Miguel just a few nautical miles north of San Antionio.  It is a high sided cala with a couple of hotels at the end,  lots of boats on anchor so plenty of reference points for us.  We set anchor with no problems,  and went swimming,  it was beautiful.  Nigel decided to snorkel and look under the boat and came up with a load of fishing twine that was caught round the prop – who knows where we had picked that up from !  Still, it was not too difficult to release and we were good to go again.

The second night on anchor was at a place called Clot D’es Llamp which is the other side of the headland from San Vicente, where we had tried to anchor, had a swim and decided the anchorage was too exposed.  The new anchorage was absolutely perfect and we had a fantastic afternoon swimming and snorkelling.  The anchorage was extremely calm,  until nightfall when it became much more lively so we didn’t get much sleep – the boat was rocking too much for me !!  We set out at first light for Mallorca,  which we could easily see nestled within a beautiful sunrise.  The conditions were really calm, almost too much so because we couldn’t get the sails up until after lunchtime.  We saw a couple of dolphins along the way which brightened our day.  We arrived in Andraitx at around half five and we had no problems mooring on the town quay which is stunning.