Change of Plans … Antipaxos not Meganisi

We had planned to go about 40 miles today from Pargas, going through the Lafkas canal again to an island called Meganisi. Ross started a revolt so that we wouldn’t go as far today and he argued we should go to Antipaxos again, to the beach and then go anchor somewhere else. After some vacillation by the navigator, we relented and headed to Antipaxos.

Seriously...this is the veiw from the taverna,
 it should be (and is) in magazines!

The trip to Antipaxos was quick from Pargas with 22 knots of apparent wind, but we were lifted the whole way so we made the trip in a little more than an hour.

Towing a load...

Beach "Keepaway"

Antipaxos is a small island south of Paxos that has limited development. It is a favourite destination for a day anchorage and has tripper boats dropping off passengers for their hour in paradise, then they blow their horns and everyone mounts up again for the trip back to Gaios. The number of boats dropping anchor and pulling up anchor is amazing. It is hard to believe the bottom of the ocean doesn’t spring a leak from all the anchors being dropped onto it.

"Ironman" Toy!!

One cool thing that we witnessed, there was a 100 foot powerboat that had a jet-ski hooked up to tube – looked like it was about 3-4 inches in diameter, and it had a person with an “Ironman” suit on except instead of air jets it had water jets powered by the jet-ski. Hard to describe in words, the feet had powerful jets on them lifting the person 10-15 feet out of the water, they also had jets coming out of their hands to help steady them – just like Ironman. Later a more experienced user was doing this really cool porpoising movement – going up then diving into the water with quite a bit of force, then coming back up … really cool (Marina here...what Matt is really saying, is..."I want one!").

Snacks in the Taverna overlooking Tara in the bay.

During this time we had several boats less than 10 meters away and the rest of the crew went to shore while I sat on anchor watch. Later in the afternoon we all went to the same taverna Mike and Sarah had visited some 228 steps up from the beach affording us a great view of the bay and Tara at anchor. In addition to calamari and saganaki, wine and Mythos draft, we learned that we could anchor in the bay overnight. So after 90% of the tourists packed up and left, we had a BBQ dinner and hung out for the evening.