It's always “catch up” time with this blog.
04 August 2011 | Monemvasia, Peloponnisos coast
It seems to always be “catch up” time with this blog.
So, bringing things up to date, we spent several days in Milos. Our first night at the Quay about 10:00pm the night club started up and went until 5:00am blasting at what must have been 200 decibels. How people could be in there without hearing loss is beyond me. So we moved the boat out to the long pier considerably further away and with just the small fan in our berth to mute the music we were able to sleep without other sounds.
We left for Kithera at 0100 in the dark on a moonless night. Clearing the 3 miles of the bay was tense but the chart plotter provided excellent guidance. At about 0700 I put out the trusty number 14 red and white Rapala and in an hour landed a 20lb Tuna. After putting the fish into the refrigerator (where it fit but not by much and leaving only space above it) we resumed our progress towards Kithera. After another hour or so Cris said “you know what? We have room for another fish in the refrigerator on top of the other one, why not put the lure out again you probably won’t catch another one anyway. Famous last words! By 1100 we were cleaning up the blood from the cockpit and 20lb Tuna #2 was in the frig. Tuna just plain bleed. When they are flopping around and slapping that tail blood flies everywhere. The cockpit looks like the sight of the Texas chainsaw murders, including us. We agreed, after our second shower to remove the tuna blood that we wouldn’t fish anymore today.
We met up with friends Peter and Renata Vlandis in Kapsali on Kithera. Peter is Greek but has lived in Australia since he was 15 and Renata is a native Australian. They maintain a summer house in Kithera and usually spend a few months a year there. Wonderful people whose hospitality is beyond compare. We spent the next two days touring the island, eating wonderful food, and food and more food, and meeting people (it seems there isn’t a soul on the island that Peter doesn’t know!). It was great to have a ‘native guide” to show us all the places tourists seldom find. It was a great time.
When we left to move on to Monemvasia, on the south eastern Peloponnisos coast which is where I am now writing this, we took Peter and Renata for a ride with us from Kapsali around to northeastern Kithera to Dhiakofti and dropped them off at the Ferry landing. Tried real hard to catch a fish along the way but no luck, they will just have to do with the tuna we gave them. The Cape area between Kithera and Peloponnisos is most always rough seas and at the end poor Renata started to feel it. Fortunately it was just outside the breakwater and she was soon back to normal. No embarrassment Renata, there are only two kinds of people who go out in boats, those who have been seasick and those who will be.
I think we will stay here for a few days in Monemvasia , maybe until Sunday before we try to move on to Athens and Kalamaki Marina since the charter boats will all be there for the Saturday change over. By Sunday afternoon there should be lots of open slips and stay that way until the following Saturday. We have some things as always in need of attention from skilled folks and in Athens they have them, but it will need 4,5, or maybe 6 days to make arrangements and get the work done. No sense paying big marina fees over a weekend when we can get nothing done. Besides there is a great walled city here that warrants exploring.
We have some great photos but vanity dictates that todays blog photo will show our mugs. So this one is of us and our friends at a waterfall on Kithera.