Isola Favignana
Ile Jeudi
Bob and Lin Griffiths
Thu 14 Jul 2011 05:15
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37:55.92N 12:19.47E
Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 July 2011
(0615)
Distance Run 136 Miles
We left Ragusa Marina at 9.30am and motored west
along the south coast of Sicily. We intended to stop at Licata but decided
to keep going and take advantage of the calm seas.
In the end we continued overnight to the Egadi
Islands which lie just to the west of Sicily and anchored away from the ferry
dock in the main harbour on Favignana Island at 6am on Thursday morning and went
to bed. We were woken at 8am by two VERY loud blasts of a horn on a large
ferry ship that sounded extremely close. We lept up in time to see the
ferry turning just beside us and decided it would be advantageous to try to
find another spot! This we did and we saw over the next couple of
days that, when the wind changed direction, the ferries didn't need to turn in
that spot again!
We took the dinghy ashore to explore the pretty
little village. We did our normal recce for the following day and hunted
down the supermarket, butcher and an internet cafe and established that there
were no laundry facilities.
Favignana:-
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  The Ferry at a more comfortable
distance:-
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