We were on the move again as we wanted to get through the Corinth Canal and into the Aegean before the charter boat season was in full swing. After a lunch hook in the big bay of Andisamis, we found a home for the night stern tied in very clear water at Pera Pigadhi. This area had so much sea life with good sized fish in all the nooks and cranny’s, lot’s of soft corals and vegetation. Another NW wind was due the next evening so we got underway the following day and motor sailed up to Nisis (Island) Petalas, filling the water tanks as we went which was glorious!!
There was good holding in the muddy bottom and the wind fair howled into the bay from late morning to late evening for 2 days. You know you are in a good spot when the local fishing boats come in for shelter! The first morning there, we did a dinghy excursion with Kate and Jim, around our side of the bay to locate a cave we had read about. It was half way up the rocky mountainside and looked to be a bit of a scramble to get there. We wore sturdy hiking shoes and protective clothing including gloves..(yes, there was some concern about the possibility of snakes, scorpions and such).
Well into the climb, Todd exclaimed, “that’s a tortoise!” and sure enough, you could see the freshly disturbed soil and a tortoise shell under a little rocky overhang. It seemed pretty inhospitable terrain to us, and we had much longer legs! Other than some massive spiders, the only other evidence of animals was the goat poop in and around the cave itself. The view from the entrance was worth the effort though!
Later that afternoon, Jim decided to get his kite boarding gear out to see if he could launch off his boat. This is a really tricky thing to accomplish with the length of lines and number of places to snag them. It was good practice, but did not come to fruition that day. (This was probably a good thing, as the bay had a large number of fish farms around it so the water wasn’t the cleanest and we hadn’t been swimming).
