We finally had a really good night’s sleep and woke up rather late. I went to the bakery to buy us
breakfast. They had nothing I
would call breakfast pastries, so I bought some very rich honey cakes, one with
chocolate and one with apple. Too
much to eat, so the apple will wait for dinner.
We then set off to the supermarket to top up the few things we need and
to buy more bottled water as we will top our tank up with the non-drinking
stuff. The day is very hot and by
the time I get back from shopping I feel rather poorly. I have not been wearing my hat,
thinking that it is still morning.
But I think I may have got a touch of heat stroke because of it. So I take it easy in the cockpit,
sitting in the shade and eating ice.
We decided to buy a bag of ice cubes just for the fun of it. We don’t have room in the fridge for
it, so the ice cubes will melt quickly, but it will cool us off in the
meantime. By the time it is noon,
I am feeling better. So we go and
collect the laundry. We also stop
for an ice cream. It is a bit too
early for lunch and with this heat we aren’t too hungry anyway.
Back at the boat we just dump the laundry (I still haven’t even looked
at it) and decide we don’t want to stay in town. So we decide to move on to find an anchorage where we can
swim and cool down.
First we just go into the bay where the port was. There is a cute town there called
Kilma. It is all whitewashed and
built on very ridge of a hill.
Down by the water there are just a few little houses built into or up to
the hill. These have been done up
as holiday homes. We put the
anchor down where the pilot suggests.
When R goes into reverse to dig it in the boat stops so fast and hard it
nearly knocks me over. When we
swim Richard goes over with his snorkel to look at the anchor and finds that it
is caught on a rock. He doesn’t
think it will cause any problem, because it will come free if we motor over
it. So we have our swim and a
lunch of dips and pitta bread.
After lunch R goes below to work out where we should go next. I am convinced that our anchor is
dragging. The wind has changed
direction and we are facing the opposite way we were. We seem to be going forward. It isn’t crucial, as we are leaving shortly and there is no
one around. But it is a
lesson. When I take up the anchor
it is not snagged on anything, so is almost certainly was dragging.
The slight problem we have is that the weather forecast is for strong
winds (the Meltemi) and rain on Friday.
So we want to wind up somewhere on Thursday that will be safe and
comfortable in those conditions. But
we want to be out at anchor tonight so we can swim and cool off. Richard finally identifies a bay
between Manolonisi Island and the island of Poliagos. The pilot book describes it as “a delightful utterly
secluded spot”, which pretty much sums it up. However we are not alone. When we came in there was a big day boat here, but that soon
moved off. In the next bay there
is a super yacht and one small sailboat.
So not bad really.
There is a nice breeze blowing and at anchor the wind scoop really does
its job so I am able to cook my chicken tangine without getting desperately
overheated. Tomorrow we set out
for the island of Ios. We hope
that will be good in the bad weather.
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