Planting Old Olive Trees 2

.....to create this, it looks a bit tidier now and will look better still when the garden is finished and the builders have left.

Planting Old Olive Trees

A couple of olive trees like these were lifted in........

Planting Palm Trees 3

.....and here they are being manoeuvred into position.

Planting Palm Trees 2

Here are the trees in mid flight

Planting Palm Trees

Arriving in Mallorca at the end of November is not the best time if you want to look for work. I didn't start looking until the new year which wasn't much better as the island is relatively quiet at that time of year. Of course it does depend on what work you want to do and how well you speak Spanish. As the island is largely dependent on tourism most of the work available revolves around the tourist industry in one way or another. There are a lot of people who have a second (or third!) home on the island and many properties are being built or refurbished (they call it reformed here) to supply this market. These houses have or need gardens and there is plenty of work to be done in this area. I was lucky enough to get a job fairly quickly designing gardens and helping implement the designs. This picture, along with the following few, illustrates the type of work being done in some of the properties being developed. here we have a group of 3 Washingtonia palm trees being lifted by a large crane. The road has been closed for the day. The trees are to be lowered down the hillside into the garden below which is still a building site.

Palma courtyard

This is a courtyard in the old part of Palma. Its a beautiful city centre, very old and with lots of interesting architecture

Dragonera

The island of Dragonera lies off the south-west corner of Mallorca. It is a nature reserve and can be visited by boat. This picture was taken from an ancient stone-built watch tower (they are dotted along the coastline) originally built to warn people inland of attacking pirates.

S'Albufera

This is the wetland nature reserve at S'Albufera which is a fantastic place to see a huge variety of birdlife in the spring and Autumn as migrating birds stop off here on their way north or south. Its is a real contrast to the busy tourist resort of Alcudia just along the road. Only been here once but definitely plan to return.

Cap Formentor

Here is a picture of Cap Formentor to the north of the island as seen from a specially constructed viewpoint. There is an old path through the pine forest to the end of the point which I may walk one day perhaps in Spring or Autumn. This picture was taken in April on my phone so the quality is not so good.

First 3 Months

For the first 3 months home has been an apartment in Santa Ponsa. This is the view at night from the apartment balcony.

Introduction

Its the first of July and I have now been in Mallorca for 7 months. I have been taking photographs of various things whilst here in order to keep a record and show people what I have been doing here and some of the things and places I have seen. This is just a collection of pictures of things I have seen or done and a few comments. This is an interesting island for many reasons, maybe I will be able to show something that interests you.