Una vida Holandesa en Mallorca

I must have fallen trough a worm hole. This morning I left for fieldwork with the big boat and reasonable (although not splendid) weather predictions. At least, if you interpret the text the right way: marejada (swell) bajando a marejadilla (slight swell). And the other site (windguru.com): windforce 2-3 increasing to 4 (at 13:00, I was going to be out of there at 13:00). Okay, there is a *slight* discrepancy in those predictions as the waves are supposed to pick up with faster wind velocities. Anyway, I was optimistic. Evereyone arrived as good as on time (rare for Spain). And off we went. Crossing the bay of Palma with alarming sideway-movements. But I thought: once anchored it will be better... Well. No. It didn´t get better. The bravest of us (that wasn´t me, I promised my dry suit to a colleague and a wetsuit in 14 C is not so bad I hear you northerly folks thinks but hey there was time enough to go diving, I wasn´t going to be the first) went to check out the wave movements at our shallow site (We had to MARK our animals which requieres reasonable stability). Well, first thing he noticed was the anchor moving at a disconcerning pace towards the rocks (onshore winds...ooops). With two out of three colleagues on the verge of puking and me not being far off (the fourth was in the water remember) we called it off. Only to find out the anchor got stuck under a rock. After many attempts and the bow dipping in the hungry waves the same brave (or mad?) diver went down and manually released the anchor. The way back was far worst, the wind picked up 2 hours before prediction and we swayed back while barely managing to keep our food inside. And then the worm hole kicked in again. Woosssh.... once onshore the sun started shining and I am typing this text in my singlet on my sun-filled and quiet (okay except for those guys hammering off the side of the wall but I am used to that now: they are restoring the building) terrace......... What the h* happened??????????? Good thing here in Spain we are allowed beer for lunch. Cheers!!