Jacana

After the fun of Poros, we spoke with Q, the Dutch Principal of the Aegina Sailing School, who, apart from being very apologetic, suggested we came to his pontoon in Aegina (15 miles to the north) where his stainless steel…

A really good sail in the channel between Hydra and the mainland, but as is typical, when we turned the corner between two islands on the headland, the wind totally switched off and we motored the final 3 miles to…

Another day when we managed to sail some of the way, in this case with easterlies in to Ermione. Here you have the choice of a small bay to the north of the village or a larger bay with a…

Once we’d motored round the headland from Kilada, we had a good sail tacking across the bay into Porto Heli. Porto Heli is a well sheltered natural harbour, shaped a bit like a jellyfish. With a large new (and expensive)…

Another motoring day, south to the small and uninspiring town of Kilada, where we anchored for the night in its shallow and very sheltered bay. In the morning we did however venture ashore, firstly to the Franchthi cave, a large…

Leaving Astos, we managed to sail for less than 5 mins, so then motored the 10 miles across to the historic city of Navplion. An hour after mooring up, the heavens opened with accompanying thunder and lightening. That put paid…

En route to Astros we managed to get a plastic bag wrapped round the prop, although cleared it with a few bursts of reverse. So in Astros, Ann dived down to double check that the prop was all clear. The…

This was another one night stop but we did anchor in a bay en route for lunch, after which the wind picked up and we sailed the 2 hours north to Tyros. Fortunately (actually very fortunately!) there was a lull…

Another motoring day and we moored stern to on a wall at the northern end of Kiparissi bay and were immediately welcomed by rain. So once it had stopped we got the bikes off and cycled round the bay and…

Just a one night stop in the very sheltered inlet at the village of Ieraka, anchoring in 2.5m. Ashore we ate in one of the 2 tavernas and without phones (no photos therefore). It is often difficult to find the…