Killini

We get away at about 1pm heading Nth West from Killini, we are hoping for a quite night before heading back over to Ithaca.  We see our first turtles and dolphins in Greek waters and have to contend with NW winds gusting to 20 Knts which slows us down so we don’t arrive until 5pm.  Again it’s a very shallow harbour and not really marked that well on either the charts, pilot book or gps.  We take our time getting into to harbour and have to reverse stern to with 22Kts cross winds.  Sometimes the yacht is very difficult to handle with just the two of us.   The anchor holds well thank god and we tie off safely.

Within 30 mins it seems like all the town is walking by to check us out and make out they are the owners of the fishing boats next to us.  Trust me half the boats in this harbour are not sea worthy.  One gentleman starts talking to us and is practising his English on us.  He seems quite friendly.  I prepare dinner, a speciality of mine called leftover Saganaki, it’s actually very delicious and Greg is awards me a hat.

I’m very hot and bothered and soon Greg realises that the fan in the saloon has been installed back the front; instead of blowing air out it’s sucking it in; no wonder I could not feel anything.  Anyway he can rectify this straight away and we have a cooler saloon to watch an episode of Mad Men.

There are many large truck ferries arriving during the night and the harbour is busy with fisherman repairing their boats.  Once again we don’t get much sleep as everyone seems to take a walk down the wharf and stop at our yacht and play load music.  We can’t wait to get out of here and would not recommend this place as a stopover.

It’s a spectacular sunrise as dawn breaks and I’m up and making coffee.  We get moving and depart about 7am. We are heading for Ithaca and some quite little bay where we can hopefully get a good night’s sleep.

 

Sunrise as we leave Killini