Labor Day Anniversary - 7 years ago! WTRD 27, Monday, September 5

Happy Labor Day

This is the seventh anniversary of the beginning of our Sea Adventure to the Australia. 

September 5, 2009 - We Hung a Left at the Golden Gate

So it is appropriate for us to be sailing again.  After a lazy morning, coffee and breakfast in the cockpit, and last minute provisioning to replace the bottles of wine drunk last night, we were underway by 11:30.  There is a gentle breeze, the motor is on and the jib is out.  Whoo Hoo!

We have Greek salad for lunch with fresh bread, and tuck into a cove on the southwest end of Nisos Kea for a mid afternoon swim in crystal clear blue water.  

There is an option to visit a hot spring at our mooring destination in Loutra on the island Kythnos, so we wrap up the swim, pull the anchor and continue to head southward.

Loutra is a small sun drenched seaside village.  White flat top buildings climb barren mountains and the restaurant tables run right into the bay.  

At the end of the bay, a channel of thermal spring water runs into a little rock dam off the shore mixing with the cooler salt water.  We enjoy a lovely sit as the sun sinks behind us in the west.  











We return to the boat, shower, and take a stroll through some of the towns back streets and find a family harvesting their grapes.  The give us some of their grapes and invite us back next year for the wine.

Our group eats at a local restaurant inches from the water  The wine flows along with Greek salad, calamari, garlic olive oil bread, fried sheep cheese, moussaka, and lamb casserole with lemon.  It's been a beautiful day.

All is Well With the Worrall Travel R's in the Lovely Village of Loutra.