In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we anchor at a beautiful Greek anchorage and receive surprise gifts. The beautiful Greek anchorage is Fikiadha Bay in the ...

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We're leaving Kythnos today and we're

heading for mainland Greece. Yeah it's a

big thing you can't miss it it's just

over there so even with or without an

autopilot we're bound to get there.

All right bring that anchor up number one.

Okay number two - Oh no!

Thank you

We've made an

early morning decision that we're going

to head further north to the next Island

which is Kythnos. It should take us around

about five hours and the wind

predictions are saying it's either going

to be the same as yesterday or a little

bit less wind than yesterday. Either way

we know we can make it. Aannsha's just

bringing the anchor up and I'll get ready to

make her go forward or backwards

Oh wow!

One! Huge! And he was just looking at me all the time

And when he left he blew out water and it sprayed me

I don't know if I got it on camera

Well spotted Baz.

As he came out of the water on

on this side he blew out of his air hole

and my legs got sprayed with water! It's cool!

At one point we spotted a tanker that

looked very close on the chart plotter

but when we had to look at the AIS

it showed that it wasn't going to be a problem

30 knots of wind and we've

anchored safely.

This is a top little

anchorage, very popular, very busy as you

can see and

It's beautiful. It is

beautiful yeah this is the Greek island

of Kythnos. Yes and we're in the north

western sector where there is a - little sand

spit - a sand spit that separates two

anchorage's - or sandbar - yeah. It's very busy

as I said and that's understandable

because the wind is blowing billy-oh at

the moment - and this is one of pretty

much the best spot I would say, the best anchorage on the island yeah definitely

It took us five

hours of sailing, motor sailing, and motoring (mixed bag of goodies there) pretty much into the

wind most of the way. We did put the head

sail out and motorsail sort of at an

angle away from the island for a while

so that we'd get some speed up and

at least cover ground going northwest

yeah so it wasn't too bad

Sandy bottom and weedy bottom here but

good holding. The anchor went in

straight away. We dropped, because it's pretty busy,

we're not in shallow water we dropped in

6 and we backed off to 10 with 35 metres

of chain out but as I said the anchor went

in perfectly the first time which is

always a good feeling especially in 30

knots of wind and I reckon we might

stay here for a few days and if a lot of

these are charter boats and some

space frees up in the shallower sections

we might just up anchor it and move into

into a shallower water where we don't

have to have so much scope out. Yeah but

it's so pretty and there's so many...

there's this spit that's got little

sun beds there which I'm sure you pay

for because they've got umbrellas on top

and a little taverna behind them and then there's another

sort of long sandy beach and then there

are little rocky coves that we're

thinking we could snorkel or scuba

around. Absolutely yeah and then you've

got you know there's a little church on

the top of the hill you could walk to and

apparently there are good walking tracks

across the island

see how far we get - We'll see how far we go. I think we

could be here for a couple of days so

today's Wednesday we could be here till at

least Sunday. We've only got one more

island between us and the mainland of

Greece and our friends aren't due to

arrive until the 19th of September so we've got plenty of time.

All righty, talk to you guys later

We're going on a little adventure today

we are quite confident that our anchor

is firmly set so she's not going

anywhere even though the wind is gusting

up to 25 knots in the bay but um it's a

day off today we're going walking. This

place is absolutely stunningly beautiful

It is. It's ... there's a sand spit in the

middle of separating two bays and we're

going to see what are we seen first Baz?

Hot spring apparently. It's kind of on

the map and it kinda isn't so we're

gonna go and see if it's there or not.

Yeah.

I've put my bathers on so ... just in case ... maybe ... They're just

bringing a big power cruiser with a line

ashore here at the moment in this half

of the bay. Let me just show you

Beautifully protected in the bay here

but just as you look outside the

entrance of the bay where that yacht is

crossing past with no sails out beyond

that we can definitely see that's a

minimum of 30 knots of wind out there

all coming from the north and sadly the

north is where we want to go so we might

have to just hang on here for another

few days and see if that wind calms down

a bit. Where we're headed is just over

there there's a bunch of rocks right

next to the edge of the water and that's

apparently where the hot spring bubbles

out. I can see some people sat in there already.

We'll go and disturb their peace

Well, we've arrived at the spring and it's

small to say the least but somebody has

built a little wall around it so that

the water stays in before it just

disappears out into the sea. Hot spring

water actually bubbles up from underneath

We've literally just got back to A B Sea

after walking to the hot springs at Fikiadha

Bay on the island of Kythnos

in Greece and literally two minutes on

the boat and a big tender turned up from

one of the big boats in the other side

of the bay and Jeff and Lena Bey have

actually sent us a gift of some wine so

thank you very much guys. This is beautiful wine. Very generous. Very kind of you. Thank you so much

We hope to catch up with you sometime soon

It was awesome having a chat with you at the springs. Yep, it was great yeah thank you. Cheers.

Today is Saturday. Tomorrow being Sunday, all

the shops are definitely closed

so we need to get some provisions

We've just dingyed a mile and a half

to the main port area here on the island

off Kythnos and it's cute!

Yeah it's a lovely little old fishing village

yeah it's really nice - just all around

the bay pretty much that's it isn't it?

Yeah. Supermarket's shut. Yeah the supermarket is shut but I'm hoping there's gonna be a second one in

town that's gonna be open. Yeah but we

did dock the dinghy at the best dinghy

dock ever. So far. It's got steps so we just basically tied up and walked up the steps

Gracefully step off. Yes it was great. Like

royalty. Best one yet. So that's the

supermarket there and it's closed. It

might open at five or that

might be it for the weekend now so we

don't know but we'll have a wander

around and see what we've got

Port police building very nice

We're leaving Kythnos today and we're

heading for mainland Greece. Yeah it's a

big thing you can't miss it, it's just over there

So even with or without an autopilot

we're bound to get there. All right bring

the anchor up number one. Okay number two. Oh no! Thank you

Join us on A B Sea next week as we arrive on

the Greek mainland with plenty of time

up our sleeves before our Australian

friends arrive on board. We also have

time to go into Athens to buy the Mantus

chain hook and explore the ancient ruins

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