Posted on: October 7, 2021 by David and Parrot in Shearwater
It has been the second summer of COVID travel problems, and we took the right tests to allow us to fly from Bristol to Athens. Still with masks on we caught the bus to north Eboia, nearly four hours including a ferry trip, where Shearwater awaited us at the port of Orei. In […]
Posted on: October 13, 2020 by David and Parrot in Shearwater
SUMMER 2020 THE AUGUST CRUISE– Sailing the Marine Park in North Sporades At South Bay on Kia Panagia we anchored tied stern pointing to the north shore. Sure enough, the winds gusted enough to make our doubled up ropes bar tight, but we did not move. Spending a week here we had time to enjoy […]
Posted on: September 23, 2020 by David and Parrot in Shearwater
JOBS – We had looked forward to relaxing months of both July and August but we were delayed by covid and a couple of incidents on the boat last year meant she needed several days work! At last – a holding tank gauge has now been added to help all to know its empty ! […]
Posted on: October 2, 2019 by David and Parrot in Shearwater
In the calm of the early morning, after the gibbous ( full ) moon had set the goats came bleating along the shore. Among them was a singular golden goat. The boundary between legend and present life is blurred more in Greece than in other places. Perhaps he was a disguised descendent of the dragon […]
