GHOST

We anchored off a little town on the East of Cephalonia called Ay Eufimia, and soon the bay was filled with anchored boats (but thankfully none too close to us this time!). Time for a quick walk around the town and then a barbie on the back. The town is quite pleasant though noisy at night as the charter boats get down and party -of course the live aboards go to bed!

This morning we set off early with the fold up bikes in the dingy to reach the pontoon for an 8km ride along the coast to the Melissani Caves - old limestone caves where the roof has fallen in. Much as we love the old Jetty Express bikes they are certainly hard work for anything with any gradient or over a couple of miles, but it meant we could explore before the hordes of tourist buses!

The caves were really nice and cool after a hot ride there and very beautiful where the sunlight shines through the seawater fed through from the east coast of the island.

The ride back to the boat seemed quicker and it was wonderful to cool off again with a quick swim, Cephalonia has the most beautiful water! We then sailed north to Fiskhardo, as it was only a short 10nm trip we decided it was worth tacking up the channel, and Brad was chuffed that we overtook various boats on the way that he had decided we were racing against - it always helps when they don't know they are racing!

Fiskardho is a lovely town, the only one on the island to remain standing after a big earthquake in 1953 and its Venetian roots show in the architecture. We have anchored with a line ashore to the north of the town but the harbour is quickly filling up and there will no doubt be some interesting charter boat shenanigans to watch later on!