Yacht Fiona Update

The east coast of Levkas proved to be an area of beautiful green, pine and olive clad islands dotted in a perfect blue sea with the impressive mountains of mainland Greece in the distance. We anchored in ‘not so Tranquil Bay’ off the resort of Nidri and then in Ormos Vlikho a large sheltered anchorage where we could get more peace from other yachties. One night we had an unforecast force 8 gale with strong gusts off the mountains. Totally unprepared, we thought a one point we were going to lose our new outboard. In the light of the next day, however things were not so bad as we had only lost one oar! We stayed in the area for ten days enjoying the fabulous scenery and sampling the delicious cuisine in the local tavernas before moving on to Cephalonia.

Sailing past the beautiful islands of Skorpios, Meganisi and Ithaca we entered the harbour of Fiskardho on Cephalonia. Here we had to anchor Fiona and tie long lines to the rocky shore to secure us– a common manoeuvre in Greece but a first for us! It proved quite stressful but we eventually got moored-up with the help of John and Clare from Caryanda (some friends we have been meeting up with since Malta).

Fiskardho is a picturesque port, popular with tourists and yachties and is the only place undamaged by the 1953 earthquake so it has some quaint buildings. We really enjoyed the small, free museum there but thought the anchorage was a bit busy and the town a bit expensive for us, so we have moved on to Ay Eufimia about 10 miles further south.

This small town has a nice feel about it and we have anchored for two nights in the bay where we have enjoyed the peace and lovely clean water for swimming. Now we have med-moored to the town quay to charge up our batteries, take on water and use the free wi-fi. Dave is very happy as he’s moored outside a pie shop!!