Ibiza : St Antonio
When we got to the large bay at St Antonio, we reached an empty fuel pontoon, however before we could go alongside we were beaten to the available space by no less than four motor vessels. Firstly a motor cruiser, then a small speedboat , then a jet ski towing in a rib which had run out of fuel.
We waited for the first three and then managed to get alongside, by which time there were three or four other yachts waiting too. We filled up almost completely our two fuel tanks, together with our large and small petrol cans. The bill was some 250 Euros. We couldn’t get water however, which we were also very low on, so we went to the local marina and pinched a place where there was a bright yellow water hose on the pontoon. A neighbouring boat owner warned us that the berth holders would be returning very shortly but he seemed to be sympathetic and helped us hold the boat. The water took an age to fill up, luckily the berth holders didn’t return, but we were eyeing every boat that came in to see which one would start shouting at us! Finally the tank was full and I filled up all our other buckets too, so I could do the washing that I hadn’t dared to do before as we were so low on water. We motored off and thanked our helper, who signalled that he wouldn’t tell anyone! We went to the other side of the bay to anchor, there were hundreds of boats anchored in the bay, but it was difficult as there was a lot of weed. Our third attempt succeeded – we found a small patch of sand to drop the anchor in, and succeeded with this the second
time.
The night was noisy to start with as music from two or three bars blared out for some time, luckily the choice of music was good! The wind swung around in the night so it was fairly rolly for a time. And Daniel woke up several times, so we didn’t sleep very well!
In the morning, Monday 9th August, I got started with all the washing, and Nigel took Dan to the supermarket. They also managed to get several goes on the waterslide which we saw on our way in the day before, it is great to find a water amusement like this because Dan is too young to go on the rides in a proper water park.
Later Nigel took Dan to the water flumes again and then we all went into town for a look around and a bit of shopping. We found a children’s activity place where Dan went on the trampolines, and he also tried a sort of “bumper motorbike” which went around a track, with steering handlebars and an accelerator pedal. Dan did stunningly well and only hit the side a few times. But he was very tired and had not wanted much food that day except for sweets, unfortunately he was very unhappy on the way back to the boat!
In the morning of Tuesday 10th August we all went to the water flumes, and took quite a few pictures and video of us all on the flumes. Then we went back to town to the children’s activity centre and Dan had a go on a couple more rides, of course leaving was difficult again!
Then we went back to the boat and had a bit of lunch, before leaving Sant Antoni de Portmany to go to a more secluded anchorage further to the north.
The scenery was beautiful and visibility excellent, there was quite a swell and unfortunately very little wind. The cliff coast was higher than Guernsey’s, and was backed by endless trees. The calas varied in shelter and size but finally we decided to stop at St Miguel, which seemed fairly sheltered and had a small town shown on the chart.