We woke quite early and had breakfast at the hotel. It was a decent continental breakfast!
After which we packed our gear and stored the large bag at the hotel for the day while we headed out to explore the other lighthouse on the island. Some 10 minutes of tiny roads later, we arrived.
Unfortunately there wasn’t that much around to see besides a few flowers and a super calm butterfly, and the weather wasn’t quite nice enough to stay long, so we headed to a nearby beach, stopping to smell the flowers on the way. Or photograph them anyway 😉
A few minutes of dirt road later, we arrived at a beach with the coolest little bar-shack, which I failed to take a picture of. After relaxing a bit we started to collect plastic on every beach, feeling like we were really making a difference. A young lady even got inspired and joined in! Starting a movement 😉
At the next beach we walked along to a bar, and when we emptied our collected rubbish bag, this awesome little lizard stopped by to say thanks!
After this we hit the famous Playa de illetas – one of the beaches voted as best in the world a few years running. It was pretty, though I feel like the Aussie beaches can definitely compete!
One really cool thing was a section where the waves from the opposite sides of the sea met – which was particularly fascinating today as one side was calm and the other very choppy and rough.
As it was getting toward lunchtime we decided to try one of the beachside bars and have a pizza… It really wasn’t that great, so we won’t recommend the place here. With some food in our belly we headed to “one last beach” on the choppy side of the cove.
The last beach we visited, however, was a sobering experience. The whole beach was completely littered with plastics – which I’m pretty sure were largely washed up. There was even tons of plastic nurdles… Which were totally impossible to pick out. I spent a good 15 minutes on a 10×10 cm spot, and only just managed to clean it. You could spend days here trying to clean this up.
I mean seriously, what are we doing to our planet?
Somewhat deflated, but feeling re-energised about minimising our plastic use, we headed back to the scooter, picked up the bag and went to the Marina and caught the ferry back. The weather was turning, so we were quite happy to have a seat inside this time – luckily the waves were not too bad yet.
Back in Ibiza we headed back to the car and were a little relieved to find it exactly as we had left it. This was our last night before flying home, so we had an Airbnb close to the airport.
This made dinner a challenge, there was a lot of options but mostly in locations where we couldn’t really park nearby and Manja was struggling to walk too much after we had spent much of the day on our feet. So we decided to try a local pizza place which had some really creative pizzas. I tried the Pistachio while Manja had a Diavlo. Both were unfortunately lacking in flavour, but they did have a nice chilly oil which we used to spice the whole thing up a notch
Back at the Airbnb we packed our gear ready for the flight the next day.
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