So, since I haven't blogged in a few days, it is natural to assume I have been on a boat.
A 50' Bavaria Yacht to be exact.
And it's name is Dimitrios. So far on the trip, I have been seasick and ill, went swimming almost everywhere in the Aegean, went cliff jumping and that was just yesterday. On the tour we have 2 couples, one from Serbia who live in Canada and the other who are German/Serbian and live in Athens. Go figure.
Then, I am roommates with an English woman and there are 2 girls from Wisconsin to round out the crew. Our skipper is from New Zealand.
The first day we just hung out in Santorini's Marina Vlihada where we got dinner at this crazy taverna on the cliff. After sleeping so soundly, we headed out on the water for Folegandros. We made it there after virtually motoring the whole way. I don't even think we had the sails out. After that, we moored and put the wooden gang plank out. We actually have a gang plank. We got off the boat and walked over to the beach where we could swim. We all took showers in the water and then washed the salt off on the boat. I don't think I have ever taken such a public bath.
We hung out by the marina for a bit and then headed up to the Hora to watch the sunset. The Hora is the main town area, separate from the harbor where most of the island's inhabitants live. They are really small islands, this one's permanent population was 270 people, plus goats. The next day we got up leisurely and waited to get water in the boat. It was a process only the patient could handle seeing as how many people were bribing the water man to fill up their boats first.
We then headed out to sea, to do a bit of sailing. We had the main sail up and the Genoa (the jib as it's called when it overlaps the main sail) and started flying. It was so much fun. At one point, Patrick, our skipper told us to walk up to the prow of the boat and hang on. We were heeling over and the water was just spraying us as we hung on. It was a blast.
After we made port in Skinoussos we had to blow up the dinghy to get to land. I named the dingly Norman Johnson, because I couldn't remember the name of the tiger in the book the Life of Pi. Our yacht is pretty nice and I would say large, but compared to the luxury liners that were rolling in, it seemed tiny. Their dinghys were probably worth more than our boat. Crazy! There was a really huge one 2 away from us and we thought the blonde bombshell on the back was a celebrity. So, I busted out my camera with zoom lens and started taking pictures of her. Turns out, we didn't know her.
After the most overpriced, underserviced dinner ever we took the Norman Johnson back out to our boat for the night. I passed out I was so tired.
Today we sailed on over to Amargos where we are having a day on the land. I got internet, we are going for coffee and we all sent international faxes. heh.
Greece is a photographers dream! Tomorrow we head to Naxos which should be a 22 year old American's dream...
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