Frangos Bay - Elefonisos Island

Frangos Bay is at the southern end of Elefonisos island and is used, once again to break the journey around the eastern most  peninsular on the Peloponnese on the way to Monemvasia. 

This anchorage was recommended to us by those piss taking Kiwi's, Alistair and Vivian and it really is beautiful. Thanks guys. There are two bays separated by a slither of a sand bar reaching out to what would be an island called Ak Elena and Elena is large enough to afford protection from strong westerly winds.                                                                                                                   A little like Whitehaven beach in the Whitsundays, the sand is pure white and the water is ridiculously clear. This is a shot of our anchor chain 6 meters down. You could clearly see the individual chain links.

The slither of sand separating the two bays, you can see the start of Ak Elena on the left. Surprisingly for the remoteness there were many day trippers who come from the town of Elefonisos on the northern end of the island. There are the ubiquitous thatched brollies and sun beds for hire and a taverna which closes late afternoon and is there only to serve the day trippers.

At first we thought... hmmm visual pollution! but it all soon melded in and added to a very relaxed ambiance.

The water being so inviting Jack, Summer and I took the opportunity to scrub, or more accurately, wipe the hulls. There was a small build up of an algae like covering that came away from the anti foul with nothing more than a sponge. The propellers were a slightly different story as they are brass and cannot be anti fouled so attracting pesky barnacles galore.

They required a heavy sand paper and some real elbow grease between surfacing for gulps of air through the snorkel.

The reward was almost one knot improvement in speed at 2000rpm...