The lighthouse at Cap de Capdepera has swept this water since 1861, standing on the easternmost land in Mallorca. From its terrace the Menorcan coast is visible on clear days, roughly forty kilometres across the channel. Below it, the harbour worked for centuries as a fishing port, and the name Ratjada is thought to derive from the Mallorquín word for ray. Wooden llaüts left before sunrise and returned by mid-morning with the catch. The same stone quays now handle catamarans, and the modern cala ratjada boat party fleet ties up where the fishermen once did. Two kilometres inland stands Capdepera, whose hilltop castle was founded under Jaume II around 1300 and enclosed the entire population behind its walls. The village supplied palm-leaf weaving to half of Spain into the twentieth century. Cala Ratjada itself remained small until German visitors arrived in numbers in the 1960s, turning a hamlet of fishermen's cottages into the island's northeastern resort. Sa Torre Cega, the March family estate above the port, still shelters a sculpture garden holding works by Rodin, Henry Moore and Eduardo Chillida, replanted after a storm flattened its pines in 2001. The coastline explains the rest. North of the port, Cala Agulla and Cala Mesquida open into dune systems protected within the Parc Natural de la Península de Llevant, unreachable by road at their wilder edges. South, Cala Gat and Sa Font de sa Cala cut into limestone cliffs where seagrass meadows keep the water clear to fifteen metres. A cala ratjada boat party tour covers ground that walkers cannot: sea caves at the base of the headland, sheltered inlets between Punta de Capdepera and Canyamel, and the open water where bottlenose dolphins are sighted most often in the first hours after dawn. Today the harbour runs on two rhythms. Working boats still land squid and dorada at the market, and the seasonal fast ferry to Ciutadella leaves from the same breakwater. Alongside them, glass-bottom vessels, sailing catamarans and paddleboard guides work from the moorings at Puerto de Cala Ratjada, open from 06:00 to 23:59 every day of the week. The result is unusual for Mallorca's east coast: a party fleet that never fully separated from the fishing village underneath it. Cala Ratjada boat party tours read less as nightlife exported to water than as an old port finding one more use for its light.