Tuesday Afternoon

As we enjoyed our lunch we headed out of the Port Soller harbor towards Santa Ponça.
We passed the famous Foradado – a rock formation that jets out into the water with a Cyclops-eye see-through hole – but, it was during lunch and I was too content to go below and find my camera, so you´ll just have to believe me.

We sailed happily along the coast towards Dragonera, an off shore island shaped like a reclining dragon, which is now a national park. I think it’s fortunate that it has been protected, because every other seaside inch on Mallorca is quickly being built up.

In front of Dragonera, on the coast, is Saint Elm, or San Telm, or Thelm – it all depends. The local Maillorquin dialect was prohibited during Franco’s reign, and so lost much of it written form. Things seem to have several different acceptable spellings.

We arrived in Santa Ponça at the end of the afternoon (6:30), moored and layed out our dinner of Iberian ham, cheeses, olive tapenade and drinks, which continued on into the night, combined with computer time in an effort to understand the weather system, music and lots of conversation.
Tomorrow, Palma.