Jacana

Rowed ashore at Scilla and took a tour of the castle and church. Then looked around the quaint fishing port where we spotted one of the sword fish boats going out. Having not seen a marina since last Wednesday (Amalfi)…

Having motored through the night with a few hours of sailing, rather than head straight down the Messina Straits with its traffic separation zone regulations, which include seeking permission to enter the zone, we took the easy option and anchored…

We decided to make a slight detour and visit the volcanically active island of Stromboli. And we did actually manage to get the sails up for a while! As we approached we could see the occasional puff of black smoke….

Yet another very still day for the 25 mile run yet further south. This part of the coast is devoid of both decent deep marinas and safe sheltered anchorages, so its just as well there’s very little wind, allowing us…

Literally no wind so motored the 45 miles further down the coast to an anchorage by the Isola di Dino. Saw dolphins as we arrived in the bay and some other large fish that may have been tuna. Again we…

We spent a final hour looking round the beautiful town of Amalfi with its 3 dimensional steps leading up past house doorways through rock and masonry to dead ends or breath taking vistas. Finally before we sailed off, we settled…

A windless day so motored the 28 miles out of the Bay of Naples and along the spectacular Amalfi coast, on the advice of friends Gwen and Peter to Amalfi. The mooring here is challenging, so much so that boats…

A day of being a tourist, so started with a very short train ride of one stop from the station very close to the harbour to Herculaneum, which befell the same fate as Pompeii in AD79 with the eruption of…

Over night, we were the only boat at anchor and with only 12 miles to go today, we took things easy this morning, with a tour round the crater in the dinghy. However we were rudely awaken at about 0745…