Calpe to Isla de Columbrete

We left Calpe marina early to prepare for a long day of sailing in stiff winds. A friend told us that we needed to see Columbrete, a rim of a sunken volcano it was kind of on our way north. We sailed 13h and arrived around 8pm in a pitch black night, Black Sea and even darker rocks emerging from the sea. It was eerie and without the technology that’s available now for night sailing it would have been very dangerous. But we managed to go into the inside of the volcano and grab a buoy. Needles to say we were the only ones. The first part of the night was fine and then it got choppy, (with swells reverberating from the nearby walls) and uncomfortable. We gladly left at 7am with the regret of not having been able to climb the rim.Read more