| Saturday we traveled 9 nautical miles down to Porto di Cugnana, a beautiful well-protected anchorage. We spent five days here, staying a couple days longer than planned due to a passing cold front. We never tired of this anchorage�s mountain scenery. |
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| Thursday, May 11, we departed Porto di Cugnana traveling 22 nautical miles down to the beautiful bay of Porto Brandinghi. Since arriving in Sardinia, we had either motored or motorsailed, but today we just sailed, a rare occurrence. From Porto Brandinghi we had a great view of Tavolara Island, a striking, narrow, steep chunk of granite. |
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| Friday we motorsailed the rest of the way down to Arbatax Marina, 57 nautical miles. It was in Arbatax that we planned to haul our boat out of the water, plus our German cruising friends, Uli and Imke, were staying at the marina. As we traveled along the coastline we passed the medieval coastal town of Posada perched high up on a hill and later the cliffs along the Golfo di Orosei. Posada was unique as most of the old Sardinian towns were built inland to safeguard against both outside invaders and coastal malaria, eradicated only in the 1950�s. |
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