To sail by Alcudia
Alcudiamar is the second port in importance of Majorca with 730 moorings and capacity for yachts of up to 25 meters of length. It offers a good refuge and place of rest in front of any sea disturbance, and is departure point to cross all the Northeast coast of the island or `to jump' to the near island of Menorca.
The bay of Alcudia is formed by a long sandy ground that little by little is taking step one more to a rockier coast, anticipating the landscape that we will find in the most Eastern zone of the island, between the Cabo Ferrutx and the End of Officers' Club of Revolutionary Armed Forces.
The beaches excellent although are built partly. Some of these urbanizations is constructed around the brackish lagoon that exists near the lagoon, and produces an interesting ecosystem in which they nest more than 230 species different from birds. Near her it is possible to visit the Cave of Are Sant Martí, one sima whose walls of verdín and humidity transport to us to remote times, when she was used like sanctuary by old Christians.
More ahead the port of Dog Picafort able to welcome boats of up to 12 meters of length. In End of the Patró, we found a corner that combines rocks pine groves and beach, in front of the small Small barren island of Porros, that means leeks in Majorcan. In this small barren island three great funeral cameras dated about thousand years are conserved before Christ, chartted on the alive rock, and between enormous natural walls. Closely together in earth also they appear distributed to several necrópolis of the antiquity.
Sailing more to the east but still within the bay of Alcudia we found the urbanization Are Serra with the small port of Serra Nova which only must be practiced by boats inferiors to 9 meters, although is slope an extension project. More ahead, the port of San Pere represents a suitable place from which to start off to know the near area natural mountains of Artá. By this zone we will be able to find coves and very calm places then by earth have difficult access, as the exceptional Beach of Clear Na whose waters are of intense green color.
The coast from this point is very escarped and trimmed, emphasizing CAP Ferrutx, singular point for navigation in the island. A little before arriving we will see a peak that sometimes is used as place to cast anchor well-known as It is Gypsy dialect, in half of an impressive landscape, by its transparent waters, green pine groves, wild coast, and much tranquility. In one of the high points but well-known as Talai Moreia raises one old watchtower to more than 480 meters from where the view is magnificent. They are coasts without no construction for which they wish to move away of the civilization and to enjoy the nature in surroundings of admirable beauty.
With bad weather we must avoid the section of coast between Ferrutx and Cap DES Freu where we would find currents and some stumbling blocks difficult appreciable to locate. Until the CAP of Freu we will find beautiful coves like Mitjana, the one of Cake, or the one of Matzoc surrounded by pine groves and without no type on watch.
They are good anchorages, all of them pertaining ones to the natural area of mountains of Artá.
Cove Sa Mesquida is one of the most recommendable beaches of all Majorca, as much by the turkish color of its waters as by the resistance with the green pine groves surround that it after 30 meters by fine and clear sand. In next sank banks we will be able to dive and to discover the rest of a sunk freighter and a transatlantic French for some years in weathers, which gives an idea of the danger of the place with bad sea.
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