Life On Sail

  It was a good windy day, which made the sailing more sporty.  We enjoyed the 16 knots squall that brought us up to 6 knots speed.  However, the next morning, it rained. We visited Santa Marina quickly the next day, but nothing worthy enough for me to generate a short vlog of that visit!

 We are going back to Lipari. But this time sailing VOGUE to get there instead of the ferry.  But after going in the water early morning, I got badly seasick. But we had to leave our buoy. It was a 1h20 navigation. we were a bit tired for this morning's activity. We just moored in front of the old pomice quarries. This time we didnt visit the city as we already did. Instead we moored in front of the abandonned Pomice factories.  It was abandoned ever since Lipari and the Eolian islands became part of the Unesco world heritage in 2007.  Check the beauty of those white canyons within the Pomice quarry!

  Probably our longuest navigation, 11h ! And one of the most pleasant one I guess it's because of many things: -no wind, our average speed was 3.1 knots with the Spi -we had 2 stops, one on Isola Basiluzzo (can't remember the name) -the other one Lisca Bianca where there was an underwater volcano. Nico dived to have a look at the bubbles from the volcano activity although it's forbidden to moor there. I took advantage of that to buy fish from the local fishermen touring all the boats mooring around. -last but not least, we only did 34 NM today... we tried 3 spots for mooring. Third one a charm. They were all crowded! we arrived late after 6 pm. For once we didn't visit the volcano immediately, but saved it for departure day. Instead we took the ferry to head to Lipari, the neighoring island, and also the biggest of all the Eolian archipelago. The next day, before leaving, we headed to the top of Vulcano, to walk arount is "gran cratere", towering at 391m. ...