Doddering around the Dodecanese

The remainder of August saw us meandering around the Dodecanese.

When we left Patmos there was a period of extremely high winds forecast so we headed back to Lipsi to wait them out. We stayed one night in the harbour to provision up,then moved out into the bay across from the chapel for some respite as the night in the harbour had not been very comfortable ,a lot of snatching, and little sleep.

Then finally the next day around to Kouloura Bay on the south until the winds had blown themselves out. In the end we had eight days on anchor in Lipsi.

What was left of the Greek courtesy flag after the winds

A short 6 mile hop then followed to Archangel, a little island to the north of Leros. We had not anchored here before but had seen it on passing so fancied giving it a try. Happily there was a taverna ashore. It’s quite a beautiful anchorage and the views back across the channel to Leros are reminiscent of Scotland.

The Anchorage at Archangel evening & morning with Leros in the distance

Heading ashore via drinks on Syeni and views from the Taverna into the empty bay

Camira at anchor in the morning, Archangel

The next tranche of house hunting was beckoning so we heading back to Samos by way of old faithful, Blue Bay on Arki, It was hot & humid so the clear waters were very welcoming.

Blue Bay, Arki

We stayed a couple of nights.  One morning we woke up to a big Turkish Gulet that had arrived in the night and parked just behind us which in turn brought a fast Greek Coastguard rib armed to the teeth to investigate. They gave us a cursory once over too but nothing more than that.

We had been “out” now for quite a while the need of a good clean up, both for us & the boat was required, so the last passage back to  Pythagorio, Samos was the plan.  After a very lumpy 27 miles we berthed just before 17:00 outside Gregory’s  Bar in the harbour.

Lily as usual helped with her usual noisy arrival antics and shot off as soon as her door was opened and the passarelle deployed, No doubt glad to be on terra firma I suppose after a long stint on the boat.

Aw c’mon let me aff pleeeeeeeeze !

All cleaned up and out for dinner , Pythagorio