photos Siracusa

Off again
Mark+Barbara
Tue 21 Jun 2011 14:51
 
This is where we usually tie up the dinghy when going ashore.Porto Picalo in the background.
 
 
 
Mark checking out the anchors.
 
Our time in Siracusa was spent walking around the old town and shopping in the market.We managed to find a launderette and also a chandlery to buy some anodes as we were told that Tunisia is not very well stocked re boat items.The weather has been quite warm 30 degrees plus but the wind has really blown in the bay and some days we have been unable to get off the boat as the sea has been too rough for the dinghy.We have been kept entertained though as there seems to be an abundence of flying fish and every now and then we hear splashing, it really is a funny sight we don't think we have ever seen so many flying fish at one time.On our 3rd day here we met up with Marc a Belgian chap that we met last year in Lakka bay and who over winters in Tunisia, he came over to the boat a number of times and gave us some useful information re Monastir and the boatyard there.It really is quite a small world the number of people we keep bumping into.
 
Our plan now is not to go along the south coast of Sicily but instead to head for Malta have a few days there and then head for the Italian island of Lampedusa and from there on to Monastir in Tunisia for our "lift out".