3 nights at anchor in Apothikes Bay on the southern coast of Lesbos, to seek shelter from a persistent northerly, and with Rob and Debbie again. Although the wind still whistled through the rigging, we were anchored in thick clay and a couple of hundred yards from a Taverna in the very small village of Apothikes. However, as far as the taverna was concerned, now was close to the end of the season, and all it had to offer were a few salads and meatballs and chips. So Saturday night was meatballs! The remaining 2 nights we ate on board!
Ashore didn’t offer much either. The highlight being an ‘antiquity’ wall made, according to it’s website, a long time ago. However it was impressive at over 5 metres high and over 30 metres long, with perfectly interlocking rounded stones. Apparently each stone was selected /cut using a Lesbian Rule, a very distant forerunner to today’s flexicurve.
The first 2 nights, it was just ourselves and Morning Star anchored in the bay. On Monday afternoon, 2 cats and 2 monohulls arrived, and as is typical sometimes in anchorages, and despite the bay being large enough to hold well over a hundred boats, one of the cats took an attraction to us and it took him 5 attempts to anchor at a sensible and safe distance from us.
With a weather window on Tuesday, it was time to head south again.
