Gulf of Volos
Arwenofbosham
Rob and Jacky Black
Fri 12 Aug 2011 08:33
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39 09.1 N 23 12.8 E
ORMOS VATHOUDHI
Our trip from Skopolos took us past Skiathos and
into the Gulf of Volos with an increasing breeze which enabled us to hoist the
Gib for a while.
We passed several interesting bays which we may
well investigate once the predicted gale force winds abate. Our final
destination on a mooring buoy
just south east of the Sunsail base proved to be a
great spot to sit out the wind. There were several other boats anchored or on
'borrowed' buoys, including Summer Wind and
Sarenity - 2 Australian flagged yachts that we had
met last week. A few others arrived later on Wednesday night seeking shelter
from the building winds. We sat out the night in
a reasonable fashion though the boat was swinging
all over the place as the wind gusted from between N.N.W through to E.N.E with a
top speed of around 30 knots. It continued to blow
around a F.5 for most of Thursday but there
was no rain and the sun was shining most of the day. We had drinks on board
Summer Wind in the early evening and by then the wind was down to a
a gentle F.2 from the N.W. We watched with interest
for much of the afternoon as two sea planes and a helicopter ferried water to a
fire which must have been close to us but out of sight over the hill to our
N.E.
The planes and helicopter scooped water up from the
bay and then disappeared from sight only to return some 15 minutes later to
repeat the operation. We could see smoke rising and gradually towards
dusk this stopped completely and the ariel fire
brigade left the site. We had a lovely quiet night on Thursday and decided to
stay here for one more day with the view to getting ashore and exploring
the
area - hopefully we will get some information from
the Sunsail staff about the buses in to the local town of
Milina.
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