 
September
16 , 2001
Gaeta,
Italy
September 3 , 2001
Stromboli:
The Lighthouse Of The Mediterranean
August 26 , 2001
Cefalu:
Another Medieval Jewel
August
23 , 2001
Sicily:
Land of Lovely Desserts
August 15 , 2001
En
Route to North Africa
August
10 , 2001
Ormeggiatori
August
8, 2001
Supermarkets
and Amphora
August 6 , 2001
Sailing
South in Sardinia
August 2 , 2001
La
Vie en Corsica
July
30, 2001
Jonathan
Joins Us
July
27, 2001
One
Sea, Seven Colors
July 24, 2001
Say
What?
July 23, 2001
"Va
Bene"
July 21, 2001
Venturing
Into Italy
July
20, 2001
And
The Mistral Blew
July 18, 2001
The
Spell Of Menorca
July 12, 2001
Culture
And Concerts
July 7, 2001
Cha
Chas
July
6, 2001
Red
Dust
July
4, 2001
Rare
Birds
July
3, 2001
Clear
Empty Water
June 27 , 2001
Quick
Friends
June
22 , 2001
Reconnecting
June 13, 2001
Eastern
Hemisphere
June
6, 2001
A
Weekend in Cartegena
May
30 , 2001
A
Time Or A Place
May
29 , 2001
Several
Lovely Sails
May
21 , 2001
Free
At Last
May
25, 2001
On The Hard
May
18, 2001
A Boat Again
May
14, 2001
Time
Warp to Morocco
May
03, 2001
Still On Stilts in Malaga
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One Sea, Seven
Colors -
July 27, 2001
Fornelli
anchorage, Sardinia
This morning
we motored our way north following the awesome cliffs of the northwest
coast of Sardinia. With the sun rising beyond the striated cliffs, they
loomed above us in silhouette. We passed through the narrow Fornelli Passage
in a flat calm, instead of the strong westerlies that blow so often up
here.
With calm waters,
we were able to fully appreciate the multi-hued sea: aquamarine where
the bottom is sand, sapphire blue where it is grass, tannish where there
are rocks. As one Sardinian proudly told us, the sea here has seven colors.
We are anchored
between the rocky ledges of the north coast of Sardinia to the south and
the barren hills of the national park of Isola Asinara (a penal colony
until very recently) to the north. Through the binoculars we can watch
the rare endemic species of albino donkeys grazing. For now we are relaxing,
but in two days we must move further along the north coast to get to a
place where our younger son, Jonathan, can reach us by bus. He will arrive
by ferry in Sardinia's main port city of Olbia, on the east coast. And
we cannot wait to see him after almost six months.
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