April in the Eastern Peloponnissos.

We have had some lovely sailing this last month the wind has been lovely although not always the way we planned to go often we would leave a port or town quay with a destination in mind to find the wind good for somewhere else so we enjoyed the sail and changed our destination!!

This a view from a lovely walk around the old area of Ermioni alovely small port as we made our way to the Peloponnisos. Wespent Easter sunday here and at night were treated to a procession of fishing boats with flares and later fireworks!!

Watching the procession.

Well after that we sailed on to a large bay Porto Kheli and spent the night the pilot says the water on the quay is brackish so we passed on that but went shore to shop for food and drink for the next few days as we planned to move towards Navplion by anchoring in bays over night as many of the habours are only small fishing ports with not much ashore especially so early in the season not alot open.

     We spent 2 days sailing and the nights in nice bays called Koiladhia and Khaidhari and our final sail up to Navplion.

  Navplion is an old city and many centries ago was the capital so this area of what is now Greece.

View up to the old Fortress

We spent a few days exploring the old town and the new, had one very windy night on the quay we were getting low on water and there was no sign of any water on the quay so we made plans to move on and sail across the bay and down the other side .

   Our 1st destination was Astrous a new place for us and it had a very new quay but as yet not complete so NO water and we are down to our last 100 litres or a bit less!! So next day we did not stay but left on our quest to get water. We set of for Leonidhion south of where we were and the wind was southerly and a fair swell so after an hour of fighting the weather we opted to sail on a broad reach towards  Porto Kheli good sailing however we stopped in a small bay just before the port as it was getting late and decided we would check the weather and make up our mind where we would go for water the next day!!

  After a pleasant night we woke early as the wind had changed a was causing Josephine to rock so check the weather a good southerly breeze so set off back across the bay towards Leonidhion had a great sail and made it by lunchtime and yes there was WATER  1 euro for 100 litres.

Well that was April and we are now in May and back in the islands again will write about that soon.

At present in a beautiful bay known as Sand Bar Bay on the Island of Kithnos

37 degrees24'N 24 degrees23'E

till next time Mandy and Ray