Guests Arrive

Cal and Angie arrived in Greece a few days before us and went to Corfu for the planned meet up day. The original plan was to take the ferry across from Corfu to the mainland, grab a taxi and meet us in Pargas. Alas, there was a surprise one-day ferry strike and they were stranded … no problem, we can figure something out … we took Tara to the southern trip of Corfu and using those miracles of modern communications -- mobile phones, Cal and Angie made their way to the town required and called us from a beach bar.

We packed Marina into the dinghy and she went to shore and came back with Cal, Angie and a few of Angie’s bags. We got it sorted out pretty quickly and headed into Muertos / Syvota. The wind was light and we sailed pretty slowly the 10 or so miles, and anchored in the lagoon between the islands. There is a lot of boat traffic so it's a great place to people watch.

The water is much warmer than last year with the lowest temperature we have seen being in the 25 + degree range or between 77 and 80 degrees for you fahrenheit types. Even though we have been in country a couple of days we're still a little jet-lagged so we took it pretty easy for the day, lounging and swimming and tanning. 

We went into town, piling into BB2 our trusty RIB, and the 5 of us made it into Syvota for dinner. Parasole is a large outdoor Italian Restaurant that makes terrific pizza and pasta dishes. We all had our different meals -- me eating a half a pizza -- man was it good. I was really looking forward to eating it for lunch the next day but someone beat me to it. 

After walking the quay and taking in the sights we piled back into BB2 and did the moonless-dark-night-ride back to Tara in our dinghy without running lights. A makeshift running light made up of an iPhone with its lights on would have to suffice.