Storm Harry, which brought back bitter memories of the destruction of the dunes in Ibiza—though without reaching the intensity of those devastating autumn episodes—once again battered, churned up and soiled several of the island’s sandy areas with fierce winds and powerful waves.
One of the places hardest hit was Talamanca, which on Wednesday morning appeared even more overtaken by the sea, a victim of the final blows of Harry. Its iconic wooden walkway, already damaged by the previous storm, was left devastated. One of the yellow barriers installed by the City Council to block access could barely be made out beneath a mass of storm debris.
“The saddest thing is that we keep making effort after effort, fighting against nature. I think it’s time to rethink how we inhabit this space, in line with what nature is telling us, because sooner or later it will make itself heard”, said Sol, a resident of the area for two decades, as she watched the scene while sitting on one of the wooden benches under the pergola at the start of the beach.
Nearby, the Flotante beach bar, closed during the winter months, barely withstood the onslaught of the sea, which became even more violent in the storm’s final hours. Covered in seaweed and scattered wooden planks returned by the waves after being battered but not swallowed, the scene resembled something out of the TV series Lost.
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