Monday 17 September 2019 – Two Rock Bay

We are back here.  We had our free night in Lefkas and were due to leave as soon as we could to get here at a decent time.  The trip would be about 25 miles.  The weather forecast made it clear we wouldn’t be able to sail. The light winds forecast would be on the nose.  We needed to do some tasks before we left.  A little shopping, including trying to find a new wind scoop.  Ours has been blown to pieces and is of little or no effect anymore.   When we were here last week the chandlery said they would have them in the next day.  But when we got there today we found that they had never arrived.

Back at the boat we had to fill up with water and get the boat ready to go.  Time was tight if we were going to make the 11am bridge lift. In the end we just made it.

As forecast the wind was only a force 3 and on the nose most of the time. It was a long boring motor of 4 ½ hours.  We were very surprised when we got here.  The place was full of boats.  One was anchored with a long line ashore, which we have never seen done in this anchorage before.  Later a Sunsail cat also anchored with a line ashore.  In the end there are 14 boats here, including us.

We had a quiet afternoon. First a swim.  I really just had a dip but Richard took a long swim around with his face mask and snorkel.  He said the snorkelling is really good.  The fish are still eating the weed off our boat and making it cleaner.  Dinner on board-  did my linguini with crab meat using tinned crab.  Worked out well.  Now it is time for bed and one of the boats has started blasting music (I think it is Bohemian Rhapsody).  Other than that all is peaceful.

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