Boat bits
Yesterday, Wednesday, was a bit wiped out for me thanks to another bout of vertigo. It’s Thursday now and first thing in the morning. I’m out of the habit of posting things this early and my brain is not quite in gear, so it will be brief. I did take some photo yesterday, from up here as I wasn’t feeling up to going out, so sorry if you’ve seen it all before. I love watching the boats coming in and out, and yesterday we had two at once.
This sometimes happens on a Wednesday, or Friday, if the Blue Star is late. There’s often a chance of it being late as it has several other ports of call to make before reaching us and Symi is at the end of the rout, bar Rhodes, so there’s plenty of sea time for things to go awry. It only takes one short hold up at each of the several ports on the way down for the delay to accrue. So, sometimes, as happened yesterday, it is in the harbour while the Dodekanisos is waiting to come in on its more punctual morning route.
The Blue Star comes back in the afternoon and you can more or less set your watch by it on a Wednesday, when the weather is good. It leaves Rhodes dead on three and calls in here, its first port of call, punctually at four-forty – at least, I hear it doing things down there at that time.
So there you are, a little bit about boats and only a little as I have things to catch up on that I wasn’t able to do yesterday. (Apologies for any typos, things haven’t quite settled down yet.)
This shot will give you an idea of the size of the Blue Star Diagoras
