Project co-ordinator at Ibiza: José Antonio Porras.

We have started the detailed analysis of the spanish coast, province by province. The first destination to complete is the island of Ibiza, at the Baleares archipelago.

Our project co-ordinator at Ibiza is José Antonio Porras, great photographer and better friend. With the maps, aeroguides and helpful information, the work has been developing with good rythm. Forecast days haven´t been of help for the photographs and limit the best times to half an hour prior to sunrise and after sunset. The rest of the day is dedicated to locate and analyse what has happened there.

TO BE PROTECTED: Some islet and and reefs of certain entity create a landscape of great posbilities. The small creeks have an important erosion index.

Since Monday 25th May and for a week I was traveling through these mithic coasts. The surface of the island is bigger of what I expected and the access to the locations sometimes are hard, specially in the best preserved places. Here I count on the help of several photographers of the GFN (Nocturnal Photography Group), I met several years ago in one of my workshops at Cabo Gata. Thanks to them everything is easier to reach and, even, we have made some nocturnal, our speciality. Also I have the support of some dozens of enthusiastic photographers from Ibiza Fotoclub and Ibiza Flickr´s, communities that have helped me and accompanied in several sessions.

From the Consell of Ibiza I have been very well attended, by Ricardo Gómez, from the area of Sports, as well as by Marisol Torres, Manager of Environmental Politics of the Consell d´Eivissa, who with I could see all the hopeful changes that have started to happen in relation with the conservation of the natural areas.

AGGRESSION: The area of Es Canar, between Cala Nova and Punta Arabí, with a high landscape value, has suffered the construction of big residential buildings a few meters away from the sea. In some areas where the erosion progresses, the promenade is just 2 meters away from the sea. In days of temporary wave enters the gardens of the urbanisations.

In the meantime, the rest of the S.O.S. team is busy on different tasks, some preparing texts for the book, the website and exhibitions, other in finding supports and help, the dessign team will soon start with the website, and the media to show the results of this project.

Be in touch, briefly we´ll put the complete amazing results of this first prospection of the crusade. The website, which will integrate this blog, is starting to be developed.

NOTE: You can see the photo we are taking for the project in the photos area of this blog or in our Flickr page