To Nisos Kos ! (Kos Island)

We are underway from the eastern most portion of the Med on our 3 day sail to Kos, with an overnight stop on Simi. This is the beginning of our Greek Island tour. As you can see, Jenée is very pleased, Katie is not. The first day at sea is always tough on our little fluff ball.

Ne (yes), happy she is not. Ever feel like sometimes you want to curl up in a ball and go hide - Katie too. She is self-hiding. She's employing the old paw over the eyeballs technique. Impressive.

We love the sunsets at sea. It was a pretty comfortable sail from Cyprus to Greece.

And our little girl is showing signs of life. Getting better.

After 2 days of sailing and 240 nautical miles, we arrive on Nisos Simi. We visited this beautiful little, mountain island last year and loved it. Here we are at a different anchorage, Panormittis, and we love it more. It's located on the southwest side of the island and is a well protected cove and the only residence is a Monastary. We'll assume Greek.

We were surprised to see more than a few boats but we loved the view.

Check out this early 4 AM shot. All the boats have their anchor lights on. Looks like a little city at night.

Daylight shines on the Monastary and the pine trees all around.

Even our little ball of joy is out. She is sitting on the boat fenders taking in the sights. Aren't we all happy? Welcome to my world. Excuse me while I clean my fingernails with a power drill.

This is a nice wide anchorage with a narrow entrance. A little tough to find but makes for a nice calm stay over. We slept well after 2 days at sea.

A final view of Ormos Panormittis (Panormittis Bay). Beautiful place. Like most (all?) Greek Islands, they are volcanic in origin and quite spectacular.

We sailed another 8 hours and arrived on Nisos Kos (Kos Island). We'll be on this island for a little bit, awaiting Jenée's brother Mike and wife Monica. (currently cruising the Med) OK by us, this place is cool.

We are at the southeastern part of Kos at a place called Kamares. The waterfront has many family owned Tavernas and the prices are the best we've seen so far. Jenée and I look incredible for this photo, darn sunlight! That's Jungle between us.

And that's a Mojito - Jenée's favorite drink. They made a good one here. The food was great and did I mention cheap?!

After dinner we strolled around town and met a few locals. As always, wonderful, friendly people.

The next day we sailed north to the little port of Kardamena. This was our opportunity to "clear in" to Greece. Unfortunately the port police here did not have the means to do so. So we sailed another 4 hours to the northern port of Kos Town. This is the old harbor, smack dab in the center.

A beautiful place indeed

This is part of an old fort which we'll walk through now to see what is on the other side. How old? Let's see, ... Um, carry the one, wait a minute .... Wicked old.

Through the doors, we find very nice outside restaurants for one ...

... With a nice view through the trees of 2500 year old ruins.

This is the old, old town of Kos, once a major trading area in these parts.

Everywhere you look, you see more and more flowering plants, and Tavernas.

We are actually trying to find the Port Police to officially check in. We are now coming back to the Kos Harbor.

Now off to customs to get our 2 month Greek cruising permit and log. This is how you get diesel for your boat. A small pickup truck sized "mini-tanker" pulls up to your boat and voila! This dude is more than happy to pose with his rig.
Efharisto!

While at customs we asked about the good restaurants in town. We were told Mummy's Kitchen was one of the best local Greek restaurants. The agent pulled out a map and pointed to the place. We're going tonight baby!

We're at Mummy's. Turns out, Mummy is the chef and her son is the maitre'd. He basically told us what to orr er for main course - one goat dish, one pork, perfect! This is an eggplant (called abergine) on top of thinly sliced potatoes with a garlic/yogurt topping. Wonderful. The suggestions came from a nice British couple on the next table.

He are the main courses. Also wonderful. That's Jenée's goat dish in the front, my pork dish in the back with onions. The prices in Greece are also very reasonable - we like. Kali-Nitka. (good night).