2018-06-26 Cala Barcas to Playa des Carbo via Isla de Cabrera, Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain

A favourite pastime for the adventurous young beach goers here in Cala Barcas, is cliff jumping

This clear turquoise blue bay has been wonderful for swimming

From early morning umbrellas make a colourful sight on the two small beaches of the bay

We have immensely enjoyed our time in this very attractive anchorage of Cala Barcas

It is time to depart and continue down the east coast of Mallorca

We pass many lovely bays on our way down the coast

Mallorca has an attractive rugged coastline with the east coast being mountainous with numerous coves

There is no shortage of sandy beaches for the hordes of tourists that descend on the island every year

We enter Cala d’Or which is supposed to be one of the most beautiful calas in all of Mallorca

Marina Cala d’Or which is situated up one of the estuaries, actually in Cala Longa, is believed to be one of the nicest marinas on the island with a price that matches

The area is obviously very popular when seeing the number of people on the beaches

The bay has some amazing looking villas and numerous large houses and elegant hotels

We continue down the coast passing bay after bay with plenty of large and small boats on anchor

Once we reach the south east point we head to Isla Cabrera which is one of the nearby islands just to the south of Mallorca

The first island we reach is Islote Horadada which is quite conspicuous with it’s striped lighthouse

Not far is the barren, green Isla Conejera with the small rocky islet called Plana beside it

Further in the distance on Isla de Cabrera, the main island, we see a couple of yachts making their way to the entrance to Puerto de Cabrera

As we near the entrance we clearly can see the ancient castle which was believed to be built in the late 1300’s as a defense against pirates

Once we arrive in the bay there were numerous boats anchored on coloured buoys

We had applied for a permit to visit the Islands as they have become a nature reserve with no normal anchoring and limited visitation

Overnight mooring required an additional pass and booking which we were not aware of when applying for the permit. Unfortunately a buoy was unavailable for tonight for our size boat

The park ranger from the site explained that we could use a day mooring and leave before 8 pm

During the late afternoon and early evening many boats arrived and picked up their booked mooring buoys

As we were 8 nautical miles off the coast we decided to leave well before sunset as we needed to find an anchorage overnight back on the Mallorcan coast

The scenery around the islands was stunning and the quiet tranquility of the port of Cabrera was incredible

We intend to return at a less busy time of year when we will not have a problem booking a buoy for a night or two

We make our way back to the south east coast to anchor overnight before leaving early in the morning for a crossing to Ibiza

Nearby were a couple of options for anchoring, either in the busy Puerto Colonia de Sant Jordi or off Playa des Carbo nearby……we chose the latter

With a full moon we could have made our first overnight crossing however we chose not to on this occasion….again

It was wonderful sitting down to dinner and watching the sun set over the nearby town of Colonia de Sant Jordi

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