From Katakolon we moved on to Ormos Navarinou and the town of Pylos. The first 2 nights we anchored in the NW corner of the large bay and then moved across to see if there was space in the harbour at Pylos. The harbour has been largely taken over by local boats and is not very appealing so we anchored a short distance outside and went ashore in the dingy. The castle at Pylos dates back to the early 16th Century and stands above the town guarding the Southern entrance to Ormos Navarinou.

Ormos Navarinou itself is famous in Greek history as the place where the Turko- Egyptian fleet was defeated by a combined British, French and Russian fleet in a naval battle that led to the formation of Greece as an independent state.