Two months in the Balearics
Boat kids at sunset, paddling from one boat to another. We spent a little over two months in the Balearics, starting at Formentera in the south and working our way north to Mallorca. A few words to describe our time there: kid boat flotilla, school, saharan dust, overtourism, pink bodies, rolly anchorages. Kid boat flotilla We started amassing the kid boats back in March in Gibraltar when we were moored a few slips away from Chris, Daria, and Jasper on RagDoll . We had mutual friends, we met more friends along the way, we created a WhatsApp group, and we started amassing in Formentera. The OG group (as the kids call it) was four boats, then it grew, and grew. By the time we all reached the all-around protected harbor of Port de Pollenca in northern Mallorca, there were at least 10 kid boats, Maybe even 12-14. Honestly, I lost track! We created WhatsApp offshoots, the kids had their own different conversation threads, sometimes we wished that Catran and Chris would start their own wat