July 1! Wow! Definitely a party vibe in the beachtown suburbs of Athens, but I think they’re celebrating Saturday, rather than Canada Day. We’ll have sweet disco thump reverberating from 6 different beach clubs til the wee hours tonite. Maybe we’ll get invited aboard the neighbouring 200 ft megayacht.
That’s mega-dinghy in the foreground.
To back up a bit: Yesterday’s wind never cooperated for our little passage back from Kythnos to the tip of the mainland, to park under the shadow of the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion.
The diesel engine purred along for 4 of the 5 hour trip, and our batteries are nice and full (which is the standard rationalization when not sailing). Some nice snorkeling this morning off the cape, and almost accidentally made my first speargun kill when firing just to unload the spear from the bungee and almost impaled a 3 inch wrass. He looked disdainful. Possibly embarrassed for me, not sure.
So, a short chug up the mainland coast today, with about 25 boats charging by us escaping Athens on a Saturday. I felt like a salmon. Our destination, Varkiza Beach, is in search of a suburban gas station that sells propane (autogas is slowly growing in popularity in Europe). Coral’s american propane tanks are a real beeyatch to get filled, and today’s walking/bus riding/begging adventure proved fruitless. A combination of regulations and wrong adapters foiled my pleading at 3 stations. Oh well, I’ve had a swim, I’m into a big beer, and I’m looking west waiting for those 150th fireworks to start!
Happy Canada Day !
Well, it was a pretty damp affair over here. It’s shameful, but we didn’t even leave the house. That said, it was really nice to just hang “en famille”.
So, the 200ft mega-yacht … does that qualify as “Senior Oligarch” (SO)?