Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Corfos to Ancient Epidavros harbour and a walk to the Sunken City of Epidavros.

Corfos anchorage. Very protected. We anchored in 10m so couldn't see the anchor but it seemed to have dug in well. 
Justin rowed to town for supplies and we had a very welcome swim and a lazy morning before sailing to Epidavros 12 nm away at 9am. 
Epidavros harbour in the afternoon before the swell rolled in. We arrived at 15:00 having motored the final part because the wind was on the nose (again!). Anchored in 13m, just east of the church. At about 18:00, just as we were thinking of heading to the village, the light SE wind brought in big swell and we rocked up and down all evening straining at anchor. Finally it eased at about 11pm and we had a calm night.
And the morning after very calm. 
On Wednesday, Justin rowed us to the village and we found a good place to tie the dinghy.
Eidos is so far away! Perhaps we will move her closer to town.
Lovely taverna near the dinghy dock.
I found my favourite cafe with comfortable chairs and friendly locals.There we met Michailis who is one of the actors for the performance on Saturday. He told us that there is a bus to Corinth at 6:30 and then a train to Athens Airport. It looks like a good place to stay longer.
And then, we walked through some orange groves to the Little Epidavros Theatre.
It is being excavated, so was closed to the public.
We continued our walk towards the sunken city of Epidavros.
Past several irrigation water pumps.
After about 20 minutes, we came to a beach which looked like any other beach but had a hidden treasure just under the surface of the sea. https://en.protothema.gr/the-unknown-ancient-sunken-city-of-epidaurus-incredible-video/
After we returned from our walk, we decided to move Eidos to the south side of the bay. We are now anchored in five meters of water with 20 meters of chain and it is much closer to row to shore. And hopefully more protected from the swell.

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