In Pilos again

Hi,

We're back to Pilos. After a long round of the fingers of the Peloponnese, we've started our journey NW towards Zakinthos.
In short, we left Kalamata on Thursday the 23rd, spent a night in the bay of Limeni, and then the following morning visited the beautiful caves of Diros. Those are really exceptional stalactite caves. They took the 8 of us on a small boat through a path of 1500m with fresh water under the boat and natural tunnels just over our heads. You can see some of it in the pictures.
After Diros, we did a long sail to Githio which is a town at the North end of the huge Lakonikos bay.
From Githio, we were able to take a couple of taxis and go to Monemvassia. This is the place Yael wanted to visit for several years. Since we didn't make it with the boat, this time, we found a way to get there by land. Anyway, it was so nice there that we promised ourselves that we'll get there with the boat one day.
Weather is pretty warm, but was raining hard for a couple of nights.

From Githio, we sailed down to a very special bay called Porto Kaiyo.
You can sit on the beach, surrounded by high cliffs with scattered fortresses that used to belong to pirates.

A long leg to Korini, and then another 23 miles in a rainy day and we're in Pilos.

We're planning to spend the night in the bay here and leave tomorrow morning to Stefani islands, half way to Zakinthos.

We were also much more lucky with the fish. We caught about a fish a day on the days that we did try to fish. You can imagine how good the sushi was...

As usual, you can see some pictures at:

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