Sunrise as the delivery crew finish the trip

Wed we visited Gaios on Paxos for a few provisions, and Emerald bay on Anti Paxos (with the most stunning clear blue water and white sand) for a quick swim (rather spoilt by an invasion of German tourists who seemed to think they owned the country) then Levkas (after very careful pilotage by Nav (Phil) into the channel leading to the opening bridge and the canal - several boats have reported hitting rocks IN the channel inside the marker buoys!). There is a temporary bridge which has very little clearance either side and the depth meter showed only 0.5m of water under the keel - tense moments as we passed through. Thursday - on leaving Levkas we found our anchor was entangled with old chain but managed to clear it without difficulty. Had a wonderful sail down to one of the few unspoilt and undeveloped islands in the Ionian and anchored in "One house bay". Had the place to ourselves overnight - beautiful surroundings and wonderful isolation. Quite a windy anchorage as the gusts funnelled down the mountain into the bay but the new anchor seems to hold well. Friday - motored to Fiskardo on Cefalonia for coffee - stayed for lunch! Lovely little town and harbour but very busy with charter yachts and inevitably when we came to leave we had another boat's anchor chain laid over ours - again untangled without problems although the lady on the yacht whose anchor chain was entangled with ours seemed to suggest that it was our fault as we shouldn't have laid our anchor where we had! Had intended to sail only for an hour or two further down the coast but conditions were so good we pressed on for the small port of Poros on the southern end of Cefalonia. Unfortunately it really is small and we went aground as we edged in towards the quay to see if there was enough water there for us. Next we asked a tripper boat if we could berth alongside them but they very very discouraging. So we moored stern to the breakwater even although there were large boulders along side of the breakwater. We kept well off the breakwater with long lines ashore - then thought that Andy would have to swim out to the boat (we'd put him ashore earlier at the fishing boat quay so he could take our shore lines) but luckily with the transom down and a long plank he could get back on board. Saturday - another lovely day and our final destination for this leg of the journey - Zakinthos town. Great evening ashore as there was a festival on. Great trip. Now we're in the southern Ionian and ready to explore the Peloponese.