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| Through the Corinth Canal |
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| Longest suspension bridge in the world |
Crest Hawk is for now without a First Mate. So I invited myself aboard Miss Behaving. In Athens the Tuesday before last temperatures soared to 40 C so it was sweet relief when I stepped into the air conditioned cabin of the Discovery 55. We left that day and after anchoring for the night arrived at the entrance to the Corinth Canal. The canal was spectacular, started by the Romans and finally finished just over 100 years ago, it carves its way through walls of vertical rock on either side. We met a Dutch barge at there which had been sunk by its owner for safe keeping during WW2 (but had since been floated and restored!).
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| With the Aussies |
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| Poseidon's Temple |
That night we anchored in Galaxidi and I got some stainless polishing practice in while the family went to see some really super old rocks at Delfi (birthplace of the modern Olympic games, blah).
Then it was off to Trizonia where we donned snorkels and flippers to swim on the fresh wreck of a 50' ketch we'd spotted. There were some interesting home-builds there such as a plywood cat which looked like a Transformer with a dinghy rig, including chains to make up length in the shrouds.
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| Transformer cat |
From there we headed under the 2.8km Rio-Antario suspension Bridge which they had trouble building because it crosses an active fault line, yer.
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| Sea Clown Circus |
And then we were in the Ionian visiting familiar places, Vathi on Ithaka and Meganissi where by chance Fred was performing from his boat Shorloulou with the Sea Clown Circus. My highlight was the tightrope between oars.
After a stopoff in Tranquil Bay Nidri, Justin, Deb, Haley & Rille AKA Dude left me in Lefkas. Only a bus, one night, two trains, and couple more busses back to Crest Hawk, who was still safe on her mooring!
The blog will continue in three weeks time!
Ben's Best Bit: Beginning boat prep for the next stage..
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| Fred on the tight-rope |
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| Stainless polishing comes in handy! |
