Perdika

First off, some tidying up–here is a nice photo Mike took at the amphitheater in Epidavros.

And here are the two photos the lady took as we were entering the harbour in Aegina Town the other day.  You can see me fighting with the anchor in the first shot.

So Mike is now intimately acquainted with the windlass and it is purring like a Greek kitten with a bellyfull of pistachios, or whatever the hell it is they feed all these cats.  (Did I mention they grow pistachios on Aegina island? also lemons and olives)  I secretly hope they eat wharf rats too so that I don’t have to worry about one finding its way onto the boat.

With the windlass working again, we headed south to Perdika (on the same island).  We anchored in a small bay just north of town and had a delightful pork stir-fry for dinner.  Thanks Mike!  I married well, that guy can cook.

This morning Mike worked on the generator battery while I spent two hours waking up and doing nothing productive.  Then we headed into Perdika to check things out.  I was pretty excited to see the Camera Obscura, a giant 360 degree pinhole camera out on a point, south of town.  Sadly, it has fallen into disrepair and is no longer functional, but it totally made me want to build one back home, wherever home turns out to be, upon our return.

After that we just wandered around a bit and had some lunch in town.  It’s a very small fishing village with the requisite tavernas on the coast.

Check out this warning about this being a forbidden navy area.  Does it LOOK like there is a lot of navy activity going on?

Mike took more photos of flowers, and I took more photos of Mike taking photos of flowers.

And now I sit once again in the wee hours typing a blog post, listening to music, but this time–surprise surprise–it is jazz that is floating across the water from the amazing taverna we visited yesterday (thank for the WiFi, folks!).  Best calamari so far.  Feels a little surreal to hear Take Five, All of Me, The More I See You, All the Things You Are and lots of other classics.  Recorded, of course, but hey, maybe there is room for me and the new ukulele to entertain some Greek folks someday.