Patmos island was the last of and furthest north Dodecanese
island we visited during our Greek island Odessey Our main reason for going to Patmos was to see
the famous Monastery of St John (refer to the other Post) however, we did
wander around the town to try to “get the feel of it.
The town itself, Skala Pothia, was unremarkable although it
was a busy port town with the usual array of restaurants and tourist junk shops
as well supermarkets, bakeries and fish mongers. The cars and motorbikes were a
constant noise so it was not a relaxing place to be.
(Remember to click on the photos to enlarge them)
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| Arriving at Patmos Island |
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| Skala Pothia |
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| Magnificent Bouganvilla |
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| Tom with our "hunter gathering spoils" |
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| Fran on the old harbour wall. |
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| Sponge stores were plentiful! |
There were a few interesting incidents in the harbour while
we were moored. The first was that as a freighter that had been loading all day
at the dock opposite, left the dock and became stuck on a sand bar. It took 3
motor boats a couple of hours to eventually pull it off!
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| Even the Coast Guard got in on the act. |
The next morning a huge freighter came into the harbour and
decided to moor close to the yachts. First it tried to turn but it was being
pushed back onto all the yachts so eventually we all had to slacken off our
chains so that it wouldn’t catch us as it went forward. There were a few
anxious moments for us all because he was so CLOSE. In fact the freighter did
move the anchor of small boat.
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| Everyone was worried about their anchor chains |
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