On our Holidays

Thurs 8 to Sunday 18 August 2013

With Jonathan and Isabella coming to visit us and go boating on Sunday 11th, we decided that we'd have a couple of days honeymoon to relax and check the boat.  There was no point just sitting around the building site fretting about how impossible it was to do anything in the heat, so we packed our bags and took off for two days in a bay, just swimming and reading and drawing.  Lots of relaxing.

Jonathan and Isabella arrived on schedule and we took off for the islands.

 Day one, and Dave managed to hook a seabird.  After a lot of excited flapping and many 'ouches' from Dave, it was liberated and left a wiser creature than before, we hope.

 Later that day, Dave's animal magnetism was still operating, as this butterfly insisted on sharing a tinny with him.

 Everyone chilling out on board ...

 ,,, and ashore

 In Fiskardo, Jono and Isabella had an introductory dive arranged, so Dave and I explored a bit.  This is the ruins of the Norman castle on the headland, reputed to have been built by one de Guiscard on the way back from the Crusades, thereby giving the town its name.

 And this is the old Venetian lighthouse further along the coast path.

 Bella looking fabulous overlooking Fiskardo bay.   

And on the last day, a quick visit to view the works at Goat Bottom.