Today, started like may others on the trip so far. Breakfast!
The cold buffet downstairs was quite nice, and we snagged the prime seat with a perfect view again.
After breakfast we traversed the treacherous road back to the plains, and headed to Es Pontàs (The big bridge) which is a free-standing water locked arch… Which you can theoretically climb from underneath. You can see why I was interested I’m sure 😉
Unfortunately there was no easy access to the water…. Which wasn’t going to stop us. We found a scramble path down to the waters edge. For those who’ve been climbing with me, think Morialta scramble but with an ocean filled with rocks as an edge.
We managed to find a reasonable platform by the sea and I felt confident enough to jump in. Manja was (reasonably) a little more cautious and decided to remain on land. So, I took my GoPro to swim under the arch and see if there would be any point in me attempting the climb at some point.
I haven’t had the time or processing power to cut that video down, sorry. Suffice to say, the water was beautiful, the swim was really good and my rock climbing skills would have me falling off before I even really started that climb… It’s HARD.
When I returned to land we scrambled back up to the car, and decided to try and get to the beach we could see in the distance. Some U-turns later, we got to a road which google said would take us to the beach, but in this case google lied. We jumped out of the car and tried to find a way down but were only greeted by private property signs. Eventually we gave up and drove around the other side of the cove, where we found signs to the beach and a carpark nearby. We jumped in and then made use of the little cafe in the area to have an iced-coffee as we dried in the sun. It wasn’t long before we had enough of beach and crowd, and decided to move on.
Manja had found another recommendation for a beach and we tried our luck with google once more, and failed again. None the less we got to a coast, and the map suggested there’d be a beach a short walk away. Well, short the walk was not, but we happily chatted and enjoyed the scenery. And it was rewarding, we were at a bit of a hidden beach with comparatively few people. We swam for a bit but the day got cloudy and cooled down a fair bit, so we didn’t spend too long in the water before beginning our walk hike back. Both the slightly longer drive and walk were worth it for the solitude though. I’d definitely come back here for a day next time…. If we could find it again.
Manja did a spot of research online and found us a little town with some good restaurants for dinner. We headed over and explored the rocky foreshore a bit where we played with my the camera for a bit.
Eventually it was time to have food, so we decided on Tapas for our last dinner in Mallorca. We chose well, the variety was excellent, and they even agreed to make a reduced seafood version for Manja 🙂
One slightly unusual thing was that there was plenty of stray cats begging for scraps. Manja and I didn’t hand any out, but some tourists definitely did… I guess that’s why they come and beg! Instead we captured one on camera.
Having once more eaten way too much, we walked off our food-coma through the township and along the other side of the foreshore. We really didn’t want to drive the hairpin road back to the Monastery in the dark, and I wanted another go at capturing the sunset, so we headed back again to enjoy the sunset from our balcony. Tonight we really got front-row seats to a lovely sunset. The day had exhausted us both and we called it a night relatively early.
These are the two sunset clips from the monastery!
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Gorgeous pictures, great post! The bridge in the ocean reminded me of the great ocean road! Keep having fun!