Adventures at Isla Colom
02 June 2016 | Mahon
JMP
The Three Pensioners are now down to two, one having reached the view that the pleasures of Salcombe in the rain outweigh the attractions of Mahon in the sunshine. Such diversity of opinion is, of course, the stuff of the Yottin community and fuels the fascinating debates about things like the relative merits of different mainsail reefing systems about which yotties care a lot and about which the rest of the populace couldn't give a stuff.
The mooring buoy in the delightful Bahia de Fornells was dropped on 30th May and passage made to an anchorage behind Isla Colom on Menorca's east coast. Another delightful spot, far from crowded, which provided the perfect setting for what we will here call "adventures". Details of these escapades are classified in order to sustain the reputations of those involved. In any case all good fun and an excellent prelude to tapas at the bar on the front in the nearby village.
Motor boaters might be interested to know that we shared the anchorage with "Nahlin" (300 ft, built 1930, currently the property of Sir James Dyson and with an interesting history)
XII Bar Blues is now, unusually, in a Marina (in downtown Mahon) and the crew are applying themselves to the task of researching the bar and restaurant options available locally.