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Monday, April 23rd, Cala Vadella, Ibiza, Spain
Cruising again! When we left Marina Badalona on
Saturday, cruising seemed like a distant memory, but we
quickly fell back into the lifestyle with great joy.
Sailing the boat, cooking underway, fishing, night
watches, picking out our next stop in the cruising
guides, anchoring, diving the anchor, swimming to the
beach, eating lunch at a beachfront restaurant and
sleeping while swinging at anchor - this is what we were
missing during our long layover in Barcelona.
Still, we are all thankful for the time spent there.
I think, among other things, it will help us to enjoy our
long term cruising even more.
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Jou, Montse, Gina and Guillem came to see us off, as did
Emilio and his son David, who was in Juliana's class,
and of course Mar and Roland, our neighbors on White
House. It was sad saying goodbye to so many
wonderful people. Anna, our contact at the
marina office, even came out to wave to us as we passed
by the marina building on our way out to sea. We
quickly forgot our sorrow, however, as we set about
sailing the boat after almost six months at the dock.
I hate to admit that we had to think twice about each
task. Luckily, the conditions were mellow and we
eased back into it with no difficulties. About
three hours into our passage a huge school of dolphin
came leaping over to visit us. I have never seen
so many dolphin swimming in our bow wake at one time.
They hung with us for a long time, as if to let us know
that they missed us in our absence.
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Naturally, we had the fishing rod deployed and were
rewarded with a nice little tuna right around sunset.
Perfect!
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Actually, we could have done with a little more wind but
we managed to sail for about a third of the passage.
We motored through the night and arrived at our
destination under sail at about 12:30pm on Sunday.
Within the hour, the kids had taken the kayak to the
beach, Joe had dove in the water to make sure the anchor
was well set, and I was soaking up the sun. How
sweet it is!
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We
are enjoying another mellow day today. We spent a
few hours washing off the last of the marina dirt from
our recently waxed topsides. The girls are playing
on the beach and relaxing, reading their books.
We'll start back into the home schooling routine soon,
but for today, we are just enjoying being cruisers
again.
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Many thanks to our friend Craig Homenko for his assistance in setting up the website.
We also would like
to thank our buddy Scott Brunner who has been kind
enough to host the website on his server.
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