Crossed to Mallorca from Minorca and stopped at Cala Nau, Bahiá de Artá for the night. This is marked as “a great spot for provisioning” by the Navionics community, and it indeed has a Lidl supermarket within walking distance of the beach. Other than this not a lot to recommend it as it is a pretty tacky tourist spot with dozens of hotels and beach chairs.

Landing the dinghy was a challenge as the beaches are out of bounds and buoyed. We went to the rocks in the corner of the bay and managed to land Maria safely with two trolleys. Unfortunately she twisted her ankle on the rocks when she came back.

The anchorage was very comfortable in the prevailing light conditions and we dropped a stern anchor again to hold Sunny Spells bow to the wind in the 3 inch swell from the south-east.

It took us just over three hours to motor from Fornells to Cala del Amarrado. This anchorage has rave reviews on Navily, and we were not disappointed. Being October it was pretty quiet with a few day boats coming and going, but by sunset it was only us and one other sailboat that anchored a few hundred meters away.

We spent the afternoon snorkelling and loved the gin-clear water, the schools of small fish and underwater caves.

We put a stern anchor out late afternoon to prevent the light winds overnight swinging us beam on to the swell. After a delicious dinner of barbecued pork chops, bratkartoffeln and roast veggies, washed down with beer and red wine, we had a peaceful night’s sleep.