Alexanders in the Mediterranean: Marina di Cala Galera

Marina di Cala Galera is a really nice place, and it was great to have our crew back together again. It’s been nearly 10 months with no time away from each other – as Ross says, sometimes parents and kids aren’t supposed to be this close. Anyway, after our hugs and kisses, we settled into another day at Marina di Cala Galera.

We had intended to get up early and head to Elba but the wind was blowing pretty hard in the morning, and was forecast to top 25 for parts of the day. As Marina and I had breakfast and deliberated, we turned on the anemometer and the wind was gusting to 28 knots. Not needing to be anywhere immediately, we settled in for another day. There is a very nice beach nearby so Ross and I left the boat to scope it out and then we went back and had lunch. Work has gotten pretty active for me the last week so I stayed on board for a call while the rest of the family went to the beach. After the call I too had a chance to get to the beach.

To get there we needed to climb across about 200 meters of rock – mostly OK but some were cliffs – to get to the other side. Once there the sand was very nice dark brown and the water shoaled quite a ways out so it was shallow and warm on the feet. We played paddle ball for at least an hour with our best count somewhere around 20 hits before the ball hit the ground. Not bad in a 20 knot wind.We packed up when the sun started getting low and made our way back across the rocks to Tara and had a nice dinner (we were basically out of almost everything so we had pasta – again). I had another call that went late into the night so while I am talking on the phone, Marina and the kids played a number of games.