Ormos Vidhi and Ermioni
Arwenofbosham
Rob and Jacky Black
Sun 11 Sep 2011 05:20
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37 23.2 N 23 15.1 E
Saturday 3rd - Wednesday 7th September
Ormos Vidhi
This is a large bay on the mainland to the NW of
Poros - it has two bites and we were in the most easterly one. The Water Boats
moor up
in this bay when they are not in use. We had been
given the location 2 years ago by our friends Mike and Marie from Athens and the
bay certainly proved to be lovely
with clear water, good holding and a very peaceful
setting. We stayed for 2 nights here just relaxing and swimming and watching the
the world go by! There were a couple of largish
motor boats with their 'boy's toys' but fortunately
no water bikes, just wind surfers, wave canoes etc.
We had a short motor sail down the coats to Ermioni
passing Spetsai on our port side the breeze picked up from the SE as the day
progressed and we ended up with about a F5 on the nose before
we reached the anchorage in Ermioni -here the bay
is sheltered and we found a good spot to drop the hook. Later we took the dinghy
ashore to sus out the town and had a look at the quay but decided
against moving inside - it was busy and noisy. We
did buy a few supplies before returning to the boat for an early night. On
Tuesday we went ashore and walked across the top of the town to the quay on the
west
side and found this to be much quieter with only
one boat making use of it. We were searching for a restaurant that had been
recommended by a chap on Samothraki - this we duly found and ate a very good
lunch
sitting on their terrace looking out over the sea
westwards towards the coast of the Peloponnisos.We returned via the shops and
bought some meat from probably the best butcher shop we have seen in Greece and
then some fresh fruit and vegetables.
Plan for Wednesday is to head up into the Argolikas
Gulf with visits to Porto Kheli, Ormos Koiladhia and
Navplion.
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