June 14, 2025
Happy bithday to The Ranger
Happy Birthday, Ranger!
We are celebrating the 39th anniversary of the Ranger. She was built on 14th July 1986. We bought a cake in Soller, and we celebrated it during lunch. Ranger blew out the candles with the fans.
The Ranger started doing expedition with Oceana when she was only eighteen.
Yesterday we anchored south of Ses Bledes Islands. There was an eagle ray just below the Ranger, as well as many saddled and white seabreams.
In the morning, before leaving Ibiza, we surveyed this area that we have proposed as strictly protected.
Among the islands and in the northern part, there is another paved coralligenous with many hydrozoans, sea cucumbers, and sponges.
In the middle part, it is a muddy bed with a large community of angular crabs and Lesueur gobies, with some sea pens and many, many mysidaceans and fish larvae.
And in the southern part, there are some banks. They are fully covered by coralligenous concretions with a large hydrozoans’ forests (Aglaeophenia acacia) with all kinds of species of sea squirts, bryozoans, sponges, anemones, fish, molluscs, crustaceans…
After the hydrozoans’ forest there is a huge forest of red gorgonians (Paramuricea clavata), with some white gorgonians (Eunicella singularis) and big fish schools.
But now we are sailing back to Valencia.



