Corsica I ⚓: Golfe de la Revellata

After a couple of relaxing days on board we set sail to Corsica. We have a lovely reaching course while we sail in between Sardegna and Corsica. Once we make it to the western side of the Corsican island, the wind comes in more and more from behind. We are too "busy" enjoying the moment to even take any pictures or videos 😅 The only pictures in my camera roll are some very dark ones in attempt to photograph the impressive starry sky. It looks like we will make it to the anchorage shortly after Bart's second watch. Very sweet of him he doesn't wake me up to take over from him. Little did he know it would take us at least another two hours before we have dropped our anchor. It's another gorgeous bay: crystal clear water, lots of fish and green hills all around. Sailing into the bay we saw some mountains with snowy peaks! Unfortunately, we can't see them from our anchorage.

Since Bart slept for only 2-3 hours he is having a bit of a rough day. He starts off strong with a sales call! Followed by alternating between watching a tv show and napping. I have a miraculous amount of energy and decide to do a bunch of things in the meantime. I give Lois a call to catch up. Afterwards, I try to catch some sea bream that is circling around the boat. Their Spanish little fishy friend cousins, in Ibiza and Mallorca, proved to be very difficult to catch. The French don't seem to be very smart. Before I know it I have caught two and not much later, under a lot of pressure since Bart woke up and is watching and I proclaimed to be a master fishwive again, I catch another two! I clean them for dinner and I put the heads in the trap so we hopefully catch an octopus. Then I realize I was supposed to tidy up the boat after our sailing trip. Of course, I only start to do this once the wind has already picked up and things start to fly around a bit. Classic 😬

After a long call with mama, we enjoy a delicious seabream dinner and afterwards call it a day. The next day we do some work in the morning before putting the dinghy in the water to get to land, for the first time since a week!! We hike, in our new birthday hiking boots I look a lot like Dora the Explorer, in the direction of the lighthouse. Along the way we are amazed by the amount of wild flowers here. Everywhere we look, every corner we turn we are surprised by a new or even more colorful flower or plant. The highlight being the overwhelming wall of mysterious pink flowers. I had to show mama so we called her and demonstrated how Bart instead of her was walking around the flowers.🌺

When we get back to the boat is has gotten quite, okay let's not downplay it, very rolly in the anchorage. We get shaken around from left to right ans up and down. When Bart finally convinces me, as I was working and didn't want to be disturbed, to move it almost 20:00 already. Luckily, it is only a half hour trip to turn the corner to anchor in the bay of Calvi and to discover that from here we can see the snowy (and misty but not so lonely) mountains!Read more