Where's the Anchor?

On the south east coast of Mallorca is one of our favorite anchorages, called La Rapita or The Trench. So we decided to sail on over there for a few days and chill out before leaving Mallorca.
It was a windy day but a great stick of the anchor so we just relaxed in the sunshine.
And a few hours later as we were napping, we heard a big bang and jumped up to check it out.
Everything looked fine but we soon noticed that we seemed to be drifting on our anchor.
And hell Yes, we were drifting so I (willow) went to the foredeck and began to pull up the anchor.

AND....
Where the hell is the anchor, because it is not on the end of the chain!!!!!!!!!

Thankfully we were anchored in only about 13 feet of water, so we began trying to figure out how to retrieve it. Several helpful men in their own boats in the anchorage jumped right in to help us. So I just drove Esea slowly around in the anchorage and the guys figured out how to dive on the anchor,
how to pull it out of the sand, and how to hoist it to the surface and on to EcstaSea.
The bolt connecting the anchor to the chain had broken--something almost unheard of!

So being unable to anchor, we headed back to Palma and port to get it fixed. Oh well, so much for a quiet few days at anchor...

The anchor on the foredeck...And yes, this is where it should never be...

The Captain fixing the bolt and reconnecting the anchor to the chain...

Just another new experience living on the sea!!!