We're in SIMI, Greece
26 June 2011 | Simi, Greece
Eddie
After an overnight sail with the meltemi blowing, rough and windy, we've arrived in Simi, Greece. Simi is the eastern most island in the Dodecanese archipelago. It is located in the Gulf of Doris (Turkish - Hisaronu Korfezi) literally right next door to Turkey (two miles).
Simi is an active little town with building block type houses and Turkish charter gulets (luxurious wooden sail boats) coming in and out tof the harbor all day long. We arrived here at 7:00am and it took us three hours to anchor as the harbor is deep with very poor holding. Everyone crosses their anchor chains and it is a continuous, daily dance routing of pulling or getting your anchor pulled and having to re-set it (read pain in the ass).
This morning I went to the local baker and got freshly baked raisin bread, chocolate, sausage and ham 'n' cheese crossaints for breakfast. The little cafe across the street also serves "freddo" which we have become fond of, it is cold expresso coffee with frothed cream on top.
From here we will head to Bozuk Buku, Turkey which is an isolated anchorage with an intact ruin from the Hellenistic period, which Morgan has informed me is the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the Greek peninsula and islands by Rome in 146 BC (she just did a home school project on the Hellenistic period).
We are 35 miles from our final destination of Marmaris, Turkey and as we prepare to end our year aboard, we've begun to reflect on all the places we have visited, the people we've met and most importantly the food we ate :^)