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Ormos Manganari, island of Ios about 20 miles from Santorini.

Still here and it is still very windy. 

As planned Viv and Tim caught the ferry across from Santorini yesterday, did a bit of food shopping so we don’t need to live on pasta and feta cheese alone and then caught a taxi to this bay.  It was quieter yesterday morning so Mike and I had gone ashore to check out where we could best pick them up.  About an hour before they arrived the  wind got up again and the sea got rough so we weren’t happy to take the dingy over.  Indeed we lashed the dingy front and back to try to ensure that id didn’t flip over while the outboard was attached. 

While doing our recce we had spoken to two delightful Aussie boys who were running the windsurfing shack on the beach so we suggested Viv and Tim ask them if they  would give them a ride over to us in their speedboat.  Fortunately they were very happy so to do and we managed to safely transfer visitors and luggage on to Tashi Delek while bouncing up and down getting blown around. 

So, Viv and Tim have arrived, with food so we won’t starve but.... every weather forecast extends the time that the gale is expected to last and it absolutely howled all through last night and is still howling now so we are not going anywhere today either.  Two nights into their first sailing holiday and no actual sailing has taken place.  Ho hum; good thing we have all got books to read and lots to talk about and catch up on.