Sconfortato per non aver potuto iniziare il periplo dell'isola, battuta in quei giorni dai soliti venti di tramontana, il famoso giornalista-kayaker si è dedicato alla scoperta meticolosa di un breve tratto di costa di appena 25 miglia ma tra i più belli del Mediterraneo, disseminato di cale dai nomi esotici: Biniancolla, Macarella, Mitjana.
"Dove le rocce cantano" ci ha fatto visitare nuovamente Minorca pochi giorni dopo il nostro ritorno a casa e ci ha permesso di leggere quell'isola, quel mare e quel vento con gli occhi di un "grande vecchio" del kayak da mare: " Le rocce che circondano il faro a Cap Favaritx erano velate di spruzzi alti trenta piedi e l'intero perimetro del capo era inondato di schiuma bianca... La Tramontana, il vento da nord del Mediterraneo, soffiava da tre giorni ed era previsto che continuasse per un'altra settimana. Io avevo sperato di circumnavigare Minorca, ma le coste ad ovest, nord ed est erano tutte battute da mare grosso e vento forza sette..."
L'Isola del Vento non smentisce mai la sua fama!
The February number of the U.S. magazine contains a long and detailed article written by its editor Christopher Cunningham: he has visited the island the last month of October 2009 for the fourth edition of the "Jornadas de Menorca en kayak".
Discouraged to not have been able to begin the circumnavigation of the island, wisecrack in that days from the usual north wind, the famous kayaker has devoted himself to the meticulous discovery of a brief line of coast of just 25 miles, one of the most beautiful of the Mediterranean, disseminated of coves by the exotic names: Biniancolla, Macarella, Mitjana.
"Where stones sing" has allowed us to visit Minorca again, few days after our return and above all to read that island, that sea and that wind with the eyes of a well-known sea kayaker: "The rocks surrounding the lighthouse at Cap Favaritx were veiled in spray thrown thirty feet into the air and the entire ragged perimeter of the cape was awash in white foam... The Tramaontana, the Mediterranean's north wind, had been blowing for three days and was forecast to continue for another week. I had hoped to circumnavigate Menorca, but the west, north and east coasts were all being grated by heavy seas and Force-7 winds..."
Discouraged to not have been able to begin the circumnavigation of the island, wisecrack in that days from the usual north wind, the famous kayaker has devoted himself to the meticulous discovery of a brief line of coast of just 25 miles, one of the most beautiful of the Mediterranean, disseminated of coves by the exotic names: Biniancolla, Macarella, Mitjana.
"Where stones sing" has allowed us to visit Minorca again, few days after our return and above all to read that island, that sea and that wind with the eyes of a well-known sea kayaker: "The rocks surrounding the lighthouse at Cap Favaritx were veiled in spray thrown thirty feet into the air and the entire ragged perimeter of the cape was awash in white foam... The Tramaontana, the Mediterranean's north wind, had been blowing for three days and was forecast to continue for another week. I had hoped to circumnavigate Menorca, but the west, north and east coasts were all being grated by heavy seas and Force-7 winds..."
Menorca is indeed the Island of the Wind!
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