Illa de l'aire

My favourite place on the island is Illa de l'Aire.  It is a small uninhabited island situated in the most extreme south east point of the island of Menorca, just in front of Punta Prima beach, about a kilometre away.

I like to go there because it is a natural protected space and it is very quiet (not in peak season, July and August, of course, because then, there is a large number of visitors). The best time to go there is in spring. It is a paradisiacal place.

Illa de l'Aire is a very interesting place from an ecological point of view. For there, you can observe migration birds which rest to cross Sahara and others that live there all the year, for example an endemic species of the Balearics like the seagull. But the most important animal is the Podarcis lilfordi lilfordi. It's a lizard that is characterized by its large size and its black colour. It's a protected species and if you try to move it away from its habitat it changes its colour into green.

Illa the l'Aire is interesting too to practise scuba-diving and discover the bottom of the sea and to contemplate the sea life.

Of course you have to get there by boat, and you have to remember that it is a natural protected area so it's forbidden to take away animals or plants!

                                                                                                          Kasandra Pons