Smugglers Cove here we come!

We both have a very restless night and get up at 7am.  We head into the village for breakfast and WI-FI. We find a lovely Café and enjoy some very strong coffee and delicious omelettes and we catch up on the blog stuff.

We depart Poros Harbour about 10am and we are heading for the Island of Zakinthos, destination Smugglers Cove. It’s on the West Coast and is rated the number one beach in the world.  There is also a ship wreck on the beach so we can’t wait to go there.  This is one of our sought after destinations for our trip as Greg found it on Google Earth when we were preparing our initial sail plan.

Once we hit Zakinthos Island, it has amazing caves all down the west coast and colour of the waters are different shades of blue.  It’s truly beautiful.  The white baron cliffs are all cracked and it looks like there has been lots of landslides.

Blue Caves

 There are day tripper boats all around and people are swimming around the caves.  We arrive at Smugglers Cove about 1pm it’s pretty crowded and the water colour is hard to believe.  We drop and anchor for about 30 mins and take some photos and have a swim.  As we are drifting we don’t stay too long but long enough to appreciate it’s beauty.

Blue Caves

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Further Sth down the coast its just more of the same; caves and amazing waters.  We drop anchor further along and have a swim and we row into the caves for a look.  Sssshhh don’t make a noise in case the cliffs crumble.  We survive that adventure.

Rowing into the caves

Biggest Flag ever!

Just when things can’t get any better, they do.  We arrive at our final destination around 5pm.  We pick up a mooring at Keri a small village at the sth west end of Zakinthos.  There are lots for small boats and someone is doing a sounds check on shore.

I make a little snack as we have not eaten since breakfast; crab and avocado cocktails with a spicy sauce, it goes down real well.  After showers and a cat nap we row ashore for dinner.   There is obviously something happening in the village as there are loads of people everywhere.  As it turns out the village is celebrating the last full moon of summer as summer finishes tonight as well.  There is a festival on the waters and the small boats drive around the bay with colourful lights and they are all packed with people.  We watch the spectical from shore.

We find a great place for dinner called Keri Taverna.  We are in luck as they have lobster spaghetti for two on the menu, its only 40 Euros bargain!  All the meals look awesome here and they are run off their feet tonight.  The lobster is massive and so delicious; we end up taking a large serve of pasta back for lunch tomorrow.

Keri Harbour

Lobster Spaghetti

On shore

Full Moon