Cycling in Mallorca!

When it comes to bike you have 2 options, either bring your own by plane or rent it.

Airlines like Ryanair, Vueling, Airberlin, Thomson, AirEuropa, BritishAirways etc... may be charging you around-ish 60 $ to check-in a bike for the flight. Better off you check terms and conditions of every airline you fly with, as some of them require to know you want to take your bike with you at least 2 months before departure.

Second option is more handy, you rent your bike! You may be renting bikes from 7 $ a day to 115 $ a day.
You can choose among a wide selection including race, trekking, road-fitness, city and mountain bikes.

Here is a list - short - of some rent-a-bike:

Berganti

Veska

Belori

For the laziest ones we have scooter rentals =)

What to do? Longboard!

On the north-west part of Mallorca island, you can find Palma de Mallorca city and from there to 16 miles south until El Arenal you have a wonderful segregated cycle facility which works perfectly for bikes, roller skates and blades, skateboards... and longboards!

We use a relatively cheap  Globe longboard, that is a fine and dandy skate! 

                                   
                             

Here is a short video my cousin and I did in veeery bad weather conditions:

Cheapest way to fly around Europe & get to Mallorca!

The cheapest way is ''to fly Ryanair!'':

1 - They have ridiculously low prices, even for 10 $ you can purchase a ticket - taxes included!
2 - You have a 10 Kg bag allowed in the cabin, for an extra ...
     ... 15/20 Kg to be checked-in is 15.46/25.76 $.
3 - But beware! They will charge you 50 $ at the boarding gate/check-in desk if:
      - You don't print your boarding pass yourself before the check-in desk...
      - Your bag is oversized and/or you bring a second bag at the boarding gate...

Food and drinks onboard are quite expensive - 4 $ for 1/2 l bottle of water, for example ...yet, nobody compels you to buy food onboard and not at the terminal. You can bring your own food from home, if you wanna keep it cheaper.

In Europe there are many other companies, but this one beat them all. So, go on Ryanair to fly to Mallorca!!!

Puig de Ros, scarce fishing day...

Puig de Ros is an easy area to fish, maybe not for immersions as it is not very deep - about 8/9 meters on top. It's got plenty of rocks to check below out and a few caves to go under and out. 

It's not been a thriving fishing day, but we could sight a murena and some small groupers.

...and finally we found an octopus... only to small to be shot...

Walking and hiking in Costa Brava

The path from Platja d'Aro to Sant Antoni de Calonge...

The path offers many tunnels to walk in, besides that, if you dare, you can climb some rocks to have a wider view uphill of those set of reefs that gradually appear and fade out with the force of the waves.

This coastal path connects the large Platja d'Aro eastern beach to Torre Valentina beach in Calonge, named after the tower which once protected the farmhouse nearby.

Some areas in the path are carved in the very rocks, rounded off by erosion since time, in front of the forestland.

Two horizontal lines, one red and one white, mark the path, sometimes drawn up either on barks or rocks.

The first 2013 dive: Pelagia noctiluca, Mallorca

This is an offshore species, but sometimes, like today, you can find them stranded in big numbers on beaches ... well, approximately 1 km off my beach. 

This species has got the ability to glow at the dark and nervous cells work to move tentacles and capture preys and furthermore to produce a toxin, biological poison.

It's got one cavity, digestive apparatus and guts in one cavity. Only one way in and one way out for feed food.

If you find yourself stuck with so many jellies, better off you are wet-suited.

A short clip.

What about pollution in Mallorca (and everywhere)

Mallorca is a magnificent island, although millions of tourists every year and sometimes the people from the isle itself forget to respect it and throw their rubbish away, no matter where and what damages that can cause. It is a really easy thing to do: throw your rubbish in bins. Of course the world is going to go on and on spinning around for many other thousands of years even with all the world polluted.

But people like me would love to continue looking at and living in a world full of floras and faunas life, not in mere polluted globe, drown in plastic everywhere.

Don't diss please, just respect it.