Loutraki, Skopelos
Scott-Free’s blog
Steve & Chris
Tue 7 Jul 2009 17:18
39:09.9N
23:36.9E
Tuesday 7th July
2009
A lazy breakfast and
ready to go by 10.30. We pulled in the kedge anchor line and got as far as
the anchor, but it just would not break out. We realised we were caught on
something and the only thing to do was to call out a diver. Having been in
the harbour a few days we had already seen this happen on several occasions, and
were not amused that it was now happening to us.
The diver duly
arrived and went down to have a look, and sure enough we were caught on the old
mooring chain. He took the best part of an hour to get us free, and
charged us 80 euros for his efforts, but eventually we were on our
way.
When we got out of
the harbour we put the sails up and with the wind on the beam we had a lovely
gentle sail across to Loutraki. Kerrie and Lee took it in turn to steer
the boat or be on dolphin watch, but none wanted to play today. They
both did a good job of keeping us on our heading and we enjoyed the two-hour
sail.
In Loutraki there
were only a couple of boats on the pontoon and we dropped the kedge again and
joined them. As soon as the boat was secure, we donned swimming kit and
Lee did what he had been driving Kerrie mad about for the last few weeks - he
jumped in off the back of the boat! Once we had cooled off we went for a
walk around the harbour. It would be a long, hot 3km walk up to the town
of Glossa perched on top of the hill and we all decided it was too hot and too
far so we gave it a miss.
We went back to the
boat for another swim, and passed a sign that said swimming was not allowed in
the port area! Anyway, we were too hot to walk round to the beach so we
swam off the boat again and waited for the swimming police to tell us off.
They didn't.
That evening we ate
on board and enjoyed watching the sun go down over the sea.