Khalkidiki - Sithonia - Ormos Sykias
Scott-Free’s blog
Steve & Chris
Mon 29 Jun 2009 12:50
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Monday 29th June
2009
We left Limnos at
0700 and headed West North West towards the second finger of the Khalkidiki
peninsula, Sithonia. Mount Athos, regarded as a Holy mountain by the Greek
Orthodox church, remained shrouded in cloud for much of the
journey.
We heard rumbles of
thunder along the way, and when we arrived in our destination bay, we
found the water a sludgy brown colour and full of twigs, leaves and other
debris. There was also a long sandy beach which was immaculate - but
empty. We realised they must have had a thunderstorm here just before we
arrived, and the debris had been washed out from the river that lets into the
bay, and the people had returned to the shelter of the many caravans that lined
the bay just back from the beach.
It could have been a
pretty anchorage if it were not for the caravan site, but the view of Mount
Athos was stunning!
from the
anchorage