MOTORCYCLING IN IBIZA

MOTOCROSS EN IBIZA

Despite the fame of its nightclubs and nightlife, Ibiza is increasingly popular among athletes, due some events that began with no much interest, but nowadays are increasingly more popular and international. For example, there are important sporting events on the island like Ibiza Island as the "quadriatlón Isla de Ibiza" and others, where even foreigners athletes are coming into Ibiza to participate in them, and the triathlon called "home of ferro" (iron man) which hosts the championship of Spain.

In Ibiza is also practiced sea sports, such as windsurfing, katesurf, diving .., etc.. But Ibiza is an ideal place for hiking, trekking, nordic walking and even often both road cycling as "mountain bike", but also popular motocross motorcycling as prove these images of this entry.

Due the mountainous morphology of the island, there are many paths between mountains and unpaved, which are the delight of motorcycle enthusiasts. Nothing like feeling a little speed on paths surrounded by nature and autoctonous flora such as pines and junipers around.

The back ones must stand the dust raised wheels of those ahead, producing a while charged atmosphere, while they go either up or down through the hard road full of stones.

Occasionally some members of the group prefers to stop and relax for enjoying those magnificent views that the island offers in some prime locations, leaving aside their companions with the engines noise, to enjoy for a while of the scenery with the silence in contrast to the activity of motorcycling.

WINDSURF IN FORMENTERA

WINDSURF AT S´ESTANY DES PEIX IN FORMENTERA

Very near from where the boat in Formentera arrives, is one of the two small ponds of Formentera, the smallest is actually a bay, quite well protected from strong winds and has a small outlet to the open sea and makes it ideal for anchoring small boats that here are fully protected from strong winds. An afternoon I was going to take the ship to back me in to Ibiza, and I went to the pond and when the sun was falling on the horizon, I was offered this print backlit silver and windsurfers were flying inside this lake with a stage full of local small fishing boats.

Although other sports like kitesurf have moved a bit back to this classic sport sea, which still have many supporters, as we see in Formentera where still is very popular. Sails up to the wind and swell with strength and power are the ones who move must overcome all the obstacles in the form of small boats which they should avoid.

The Windsurf has its origins in the 30's when a man named Tom Blake tired of rowing thought a way to move through the water that would be with a single sail. In the 60's popularized the sport and yet much still remains their supporters.
Here the viewer will also enjoy watching the sails moving almost in unison, and occasionally sails on the horizon disappear and reappearing shortly afterwards and seeing how they go on and come from a comfortable terrace with a beer or sometimes from the beach or shore and going up, and surfers, enjoying being able to walk or sometimes fly over the sea.

AWAITING THE SPANISH VICTORY

During these days plenty Spanish flags are located on to the balconys of the island supporting this way the Spanish Team in Sudafrica to win the World cup. Even Paul the English octopuss living now in Germany has decided that the victory of the world cup belongs to Spain.

Its simple, just go around the city, watch up and you´ll see a lot of flags in yellow and red of the Spanish Kingdom.

Hope that bull soon will be free. All countrys have good and bad things, and I am not proud at all of the famous bullfighting. Hope soon we will enjoy into this country to not have them anymore and that it will be definitely history.

Hope the Spanish team will be luck this time.

If we can not win, we will be in second place, which is no bad at all, but we must try to win.

As we can see below, in Spain there are supporters of both sides, so is not unusual to see diferent flags of another countrys, including Holland our rivals. So that´s mean that if Holland wins the game not everybody will be sad on the island. But hope to see a lot of happy people and Spain gets the cup.

CLIMBING ON THE MYTHICAL ATLANTIS

CLIMBING IN SA PEDRERA D´ES SAVINAR

The impressive descent that leads us to Atlantis's lost City, or to what is the same thing but quarry sounds a bit less mythological to "Sa pedrera des Savinar", when we can looked backward we see a great rocky vertically clump, there it is a great place where people can practise (specially on weekends) the climbing. In the picture above we can see (but really small) the tower of sabinar, where from there are extraordinarys sights to the famous islands Vedrà and Vedranell.

Of course the first quality of the climbers is not to have dizziness and then to be acquainted with all kinds of devices, strings etc, that it is necessary to go with it in order for the success of the climbing, specially the raise.

For those as me who not dare to rise, also inducement is to see all this from below, suffering with any incident that they can have in the heights for those who practise it.

Certainly after the difficult raise, the descent comes and this one is much simpler and certainly much more fast. For those who don´t practise climbing, our descent does not stay here, we lack much for going down up to the mythical Atlantis, also for us the way down will be faster. The raise on our way back and way up will be much harder.

KITESURF IN IBIZA

KITESURF- A winter in the island? why not?

Winter in Ibiza? Of Course!!!. Who says that Ibiza is boring during winter???, This is one of the Sports you can try in Ibiza during winter. When the strong winds arrive to the island, generally they come from the west, so This do that Sant Antoni´s Bay as perfect site to practice this sport.

So here you are this kiters, going so fast and enjoying themself with this activity. To start practice this sport, it´s recommended to do a course, due the dangerous situations that can be envolved, and is hardly necessary to know what to do just in case.

In this case, the wind came from the right end, it´s called "on shore" if the wind comes from off shore it can be dangerous to get out, so, the kiter can not easily come back to the shore.

This sport in Europe is quite new, but there´s acknowledgment that in China and Indonesia they practice something like this from many centuries ago.

So you know now. If you stay in Ibiza during a windy day, don´t doubt to go to the Sant Antoni´s harbour, you´ll enjoy flying on the sea, or at least to see it.