The day started with walking into this delightful village, past the cottages with lemon trees in the gardens. We didn’t find a butcher but we did find the bakery, the general store and the fish shop. It showed how geared up they to visitors that the fishmonger offered that, if you reserved your fish before 1pm, you could collect it at 6pm. We’ve been really impressed with this little place. This group of World Heritage Site Islands are mainly reliant on tourism these days, and, it seems to us, must have to make enough to sustain themselves, in four months and yet they were not charging premium prices.
With our food supplies topped up we could ready the boat for going. We had folded away the bimini in the high winds of a few days ago, so that came out again today. There had been about eight yachts in the marina overnight, about half of which were charter boats. It had been all very relaxed and happy.
We had planned to head to the Island of Panarea, where we were hoping to pick up a mooring buoy outside the town, but having spotted that the buoy field isn’t open until 1st May, we phoned, and after a difficult conversation with our limited Italian, we confirmed it was not open. We would be reliant on their water taxi service to go ashore, because we’ve broken the only pump we have to inflate the dinghy, so, regrettably, it wasn’t worth us going up there, if we couldn’t go ashore. It’s a pity, because we’ve read that it is frequented by the jet set from Rome and Naples, so great opportunities for people watching, although I suspect they are not there yet. The locals have all the look of getting ready for the season, rather than being in the season.
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| Stromboli in the distance |
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| Smoke permanently coming from the crater on Vulcano |
There was no wind, so we motored the twelve miles, or so, around Lipari Island to an anchorage in the north of Vulcana. It’s on the other side of the peninsula from the main town and we have a view of the smoking crater, but thankfully not suffering the sulphur smells that can be belched out at times.
We had delighted in watching the hydrofoils that buzz around the islands at about 34knots. With the same brand as those in the Egadi Islands, they are quite magnificent to see.
A heavenly day has been finished with watching the sunset, followed by dinner of fish, caught this morning, in complete peace and tranquillity.
Miles Today - 12
Miles 2022 - 182
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