Before long, people were out enjoying their weekend on paddleboards, paddleboats, canoes and swimming in the still freezing water. Roy had to join them too, though, to clean our depth sensor again and clean Paw Paw’s bottom after our stay in Syracuse.
With the weather conditions out of the north-northwest and later the northwest, we were delighted to be well protected, with very little swell and it was lovely to be in a quiet anchorage surrounded by nature again; towering cliffs, covered in green vegetation and to watch birds soaring high in the sky as they eyed out their next meal. Having warmer weather too also meant we were in shorts and t-shirts for the first time since last summer.
It was also lovely to have a nice long chat to one of our floating neighbours, Carolina and Alan, off Hakule’a, who came over to introduce themselves on their way ashore to enjoy a hike over to the little town of Palinuro, on the other side of the headland.
However, given our lack of sleep last night with the fireworks and thumping music till all hours of the night, we decided an afternoon nap was a better way to spend our time rather than a hike; unusual for Roy, but he had a few maintenance chores to take care of on the engines that were more important and needed some shuteye first. These included checking the engine and saildrive oil on both engines, as well as emptying the RACOR filters again as some residual gunge had collected again from the diesel we purchased in Perveza, Greece.
Dinner and bed wrapped up a wonderfully peaceful and relaxing day.
