On Monday, we had a long sail from Orei to Khalkida. It’s about a 60 mile ride, but we had everything that day: wind from any direction and at various forces, some motoring, lovely sunset, and an amazingly long Dolphin show.
We started at 8:30am motoring into the Evia channel with no wind at all. We went slowly as we were trying to catch some fish (no luck on that). A couple of hours later, the wind picked up (straight on our nose) and with it came a school of maybe 10 Dolphins. They started by a couple of high vertical jumps and kept swimming on our bow wave, 3 to 5 of them, over and over again. The were going on the bow wave for some time, then swimming faster on, then jumping and then returning to our bow. As scenery, on both our beams, other dolphins were swimming and jumping. It kept going on and on for about an hour.
It was a spectacular show, very exciting to all of us. Noga thought it’s the cutest animal on earth.
When they left, we decided to start tacking against the prevailing wind, as we had the time and we only had to do some tacking till we can set our course on Khalkida.
As we started sailing, the dolphins came back and rejoined us, kept playing the same old game.
Towards the end of the day, the wind got a little crazy. It would shift in 180 degrees in seconds. The good thing is that we could see it coming (Yael’s specialty is to predict what’s about to happen with the wind). So we managed to sail all the way to Khalkida, through the sunset and the fishing boats outside the town of Khalkida.
At midnight we crossed the bridge and anchored in the bay, ready for a long sailing day to Kea.
I updated the photo album with the latest pictures, and mapped them as well.
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| Princess Nayeli summer 2009 |
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