Today was the best scenery yet. Take a look at the Smugmug site. (It includes a short video - hope it works for you, let me know if it doesn’t, please.) Like Norway with warm weather. Spectacular cliffs everywhere, high mountains. One mountain with a see-through hole the size of a standard sized Spanish motor yacht!

We anchored in the little bay on I. Dragonera for lunch. It would be pretty tricky to do that overnight. We also explored some bays to anchor in for the night including one in a place called Deya. Great location and seemingly big enough to stay for the night. We put the anchor down in 8 m of water between two standard size motor boats and all seemed good. Then the motor boat deepest into the bay left and the guy said “go there, much shallower and nice sand to anchor in.” Well, normally 13 is my lucky number but not this time. Anchor up and back down involves just the exercise of an index finger so no problem there. The problem came when I was inspecting the results of the second anchor drop: The anchor seemed to have lodged below a huge rock and the chain seemed around the rock! We weren’t going to tolerate that obviously so anchor up was the call. Nice try, no cigar. This thing was STUCK! It took about ½ hour of driving around the bay, using the bow thruster and the engine to finally wiggle the anchor free again. There were a few “hard” stops on the chain …. Good thing that Kincsem’s anchor gear is roughly twice the size of the standard Amel stuff. No damage whatsoever.

You must be thinking this anchoring thing is either very difficult or we just can’t do it. Neither is the truth! But after that experience, we decided we needed a dinner ashore. Soller was the call and it’s again a great place.