Life On Sail

 From Aranella to Palermo was just 3 nautical miles, we don't even count it as a navigation.  It brought us straight to Palermo! We arrived at noon, to what I would call now, the best port so far of Italy and of all our trips so far.  It was modern, with all the amenity, and was at the low season's price. 70 euros.  It's probably double in July-August.  And the historic city is just next to the port.  Here is a Vlog of our 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!

 1 0h navigation for 42 NM is one of our longest navigation. We are now living mainland Italy towards Sicily. But before we hit Sicily we are going through its Eolian islands. We had good wind all throughout, and even got a 12.5 knot squall that brought us up to 7 knots speed. The best part is that we arrived at night time at the Sciara de fueco point where the lava pours into the sea. We could see eruptions every 15-20 minutes. Look at this in the video! Next day we visited the city and of course the Stromboli volcano, getting closer to its crater. We visited San Vincenzo village, then climbed 290m to get to the Sciara de Fueco to see the volcano's outburst. We can't see as well as after sunset but we were lucky enough to see volcanic rocks rolling down into the sea. On the way back we visited San Bartolomeo, very chill and relax village with houses styled like in Santorini or Mykonos. We had dinner then headed back to the boat! What a memorable mooring! with a volcano next...