Formentera – Espalmador

Had a nice 8M sail from Port Roig to Formentera. We booked a buoy online to tie up to for 2 nights at Punta De La Pedrere as well as Espalmador after that.

Formentera is a small island just South of Ibiza. It was our first time on a mooring and after a couple of attempts we managed to tie up Sephina safely.

Its a nice protected bay and a short dinghy ride into the town of La Savina for supplies and sightseeing. We headed into town and bought groceries and ate in one of the marina side restaurants. You can leave your dinghy in the lagoon right by the supermarket. Its too shallow to take Sephina in but its filled with local fishing and pleasure boats as well.

We met some other cruisers there, Tony and Di from Tiger, and Ana and Nicolas, both skippers on privately owner Lagoon 440’s.

Ana and Nicholas invited us for a drink and we had a look around the 440 as well. Nice boat! We liked the upper bridgedeck as well as the spacious seating and the wet bar. Ana and Nicholas have been busy all Summer with charter guests and just now its come to an end for them. They will head back to Barcelona and probably to the Caribbean for their Summer. Not a bad lifestyle! They are both artists and Ana showed us some of her natural fish creations, very beautiful..

Tony and Di are skippers on an owners yacht. Basically they sail where they like and occasionally the owner and some guests fly down to join them. The owner wasn’t on board so they were enjoying cruising and slowly making there way back to Gibraltar for the Winter.

After a couple of nights we headed 5m North to the smaller island of Espalmador. Its a beautiful protected harbour as well and once again we picked up a mooring buoy. We ended up staying more than we had booked for, but there were plenty of spare buoys to choose from. We just had to move once or twice.

We swam to the beach with Balrog, but Jen stopped halfway when she saw a jellyfish! I saw him too, the only one ! grrrrr…

The next day we spent some time on the beach and walked around the island. Found the hot mud baths but didn’t go in as it didn’t look (or smell) too beneficial for our health! We did see lots of other tourists caked in the grey green mud walking along the beach though.

I had a couple of Kite surfs, but the wind wasn’t quite strong enough to kite for very long. Still fun though! Balrog and Jen watched from the beach…

The sand in the beach is squeaky white with a pink tinge on the shoreline. The water is clear aqua blue, like I would imagine the Caribbean. It sure beats Point Wilson..

A couple had dropped anchor from there dinghy to enjoy the view…funny ! Behind is one of the party cats that makes daily trips to the Island from Ibiza. Their lunch menu sounded yummy.

 

The weather is forecast to change a bit and we are planning on picking up our friend Arno from Ibiza so its time to leave Espalmador for now and head toward Ibiza..