Sami- Cephalonia

The three bells outside monastery

After Vathy I made one more anchor stop on Ithaca to the south. Another fantastic little bay with wild goats. Interestingly they were drinking from the sea but that’s because fresh water was coming out from a submarine spring which I’d found the previous day .How smart of the goats to realise and pass on the info to following generations! 

The other incident was having to reset the anchor at dusk as a sudden high breeze picked up taking me close to a neighbouring boat ,proved to be a bit taxing .

After this it was a short hop to Sami. 

I was supposed to meet Nigel for a couple of days but he had to cancel last minute due to illness. Very kindly he said to use the apartment which has enabled me to do all my washing , Sleep in a proper bed , shower on demand and watch the progression of Israel v’s Hamas on TV.

The boat is tied up snugly behind a break water and given me an option to do a few jobs like painting marks on the anchor chain and spring clean.

Apart from that, land based activities are beach swims and off piste arduous walks . Goat tracks define my routes and lead to the local attractions with a few rock climbs thrown in for good measure. Yesterday a castle, today a monastery where I found a mortar tail fin. 

Mortar tail fin.

Not sure what it was doing up the side of the hill. The town is small and very friendly. Tomorrow is the Corinth leg. Very exciting!