Still in Koufonisia.
Yesterday we acted like tourists.
There is a little local boat that takes you to any one of the three
local beaches. We walked to the
closest beach yesterday, so today we will take the boat to the furthest
one. Richard is hoping it will be
a nudist beach. It is not. It is a beautiful sandy beach all around
an enclosed bay. The only problem
is that is had no beach chairs or parasols. So as we are going on the boat we bring our own chairs and
beach umbrella. The problem with
the umbrella is that is is blowing a houlie - at least force 4 and probably a
5. That means the umbrella will
blow away. However, I have been
watching the locals and see how the hold their umbrellas up with rocks. We have a bit of string R uses as a
handle, so we tie that to a rock and then to the umbrella spokes. And guess what? it works. So we spend the whole day on the beach
taking turns to sit under the umbrella.
Again the wind is making it cool, so we only go in the sea once.
We are watching the boats go back to the port. They leave between quarter past and half past every
hour. We decide we will take the
one that leaves at 17:30. So we
pack up all our stuff and walk over to the landing stage. But no boat comes! I can’t believe it. How are we to get back? Well after waiting for an hour a boat
does appear. When we get back to
the port we note that the timetable (which Richard did not take good note of)
shows that the boat goes every hour except at 3:30 and 5:30! We could have stayed on the beach for
the extra time. But it is probably
as well that we didn’t because when I get back to the boat I find that I have
burnt on one side of my chest and upper arm. I guess I wasn’t sufficiently under the umbrella!
The wind is still strong and we are covered in sand again. We aren’t going to clean it. We have decided to stay until Monday when
the forecast is for lighter winds and smaller seas.
So we get up late today. It
is still blowing a force 4. We have
a leisurely breakfast and pay for two more nights. We have a walk around the other headland. It is very pretty with another two
little harbours for fishing boats. We identify a restaurant that has been
recommended and we shall go there for supper. We walk back through the town seeing the back streets we
hadn’t found before. It is quite
cute and very Greek.
Back on the boat the wind is getting up. It is blowing a force 5 gusting 6 and bringing along lots
more sand. We sit in the cockpit,
but by the end of the day we are very dusty. We haven’t bothered to go swimming. The wind is making it too cold. R finally gets around to changing the
rest of our internal lighting to LEDs and reinflates and cleans our fenders.
A quiet afternoon and then off to dinner. The restaurant is very lively. They are playing Greek music and there seems to be a wedding
in the garden! Richard says this
is our first place that seems really Greek. We are not sure what we will do tomorrow, but we may take
the little boat to the neighbouring island. The forecast is for more wind and big seas!
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