Sailing Calista25 July 2022 – 27 July 2022
We left the anchorage at Sounio shortly after morning tea to head over to Kea Island, the closest island to Athens. I was looking forward to visiting this island as its name was the same as my “initials”. We had both the main sail and genoa reefed due to the winds being gusty and blowing around 24 – 27 knots. After about an hour underway, we had our friends on Paloma pass us by also heading out to Kea Island. They were flying full staysail rather than reefed Genoa and seemed to be better balanced.
We both arrived in the anchorage of Koundouros on Kea Island at about the same time and anchored near to each other with the intention of going ashore. Unfortunately we weren’t comfortable leaving the boats unattended so we stayed onboard instead.
The weather wasn’t much better the following morning, so both Paloma and ourselves left the anchorage on Kea and sailed downwind to the next island of Kythnos to seek better protection. With both the sails furled out, we were getting along very confortable as we had the island of Kea giving some protection. As we crossed over from Kea to Kynthos the wind blew quite strongly between the two islands and the sea state was quite rolly.
We arrrived in Apokrisi Bay, a lovely sheltered bay however Paloma chose a different bay closer to the main harbour.
We went for abit of a dingy trip around the anchorage and also checked out the other anchorage nearby. Calista is well positioned in the middle of the bay.
The other anchorage was very popular thou rather crowded for its size. There wasn’t really alot of room due to lots of rocks close to the shoreline.
We headed back our anchorage where we enjoyed a swim from the back of Calista before going ashore for dinner.
We dined upstairs at one of the local restaurants which had lovely views overlooking the beach below and the anchorage.
After our dinner we decided to walk up the main road in search of somewhere to stop and watch the sunset.
It was a lovely time of evening for the walk up the road, but we did have to be weary of the cars coming and leaving the bay as here was no footpath.
We clambered up onto someone’s unoccupied propery and found a rock to sit on while watching the beautiful sunset on another glorious day.
Coming back from our walk, we walked along the beach front.
After a couple of days it was time to move on and head south down to Milos Island.
