{"id":2517,"date":"2021-08-28T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T08:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2022-10-08T15:16:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T12:16:12","slug":"an-evening-cruise-around-paleochora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/an-evening-cruise-around-paleochora\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening Cruise around Paleochora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If I think about it, and then make a decision, it takes me only five minutes to load my sea-kayak on the car roof rack, ten minutes to drive down to the Marina in Paleochora, and then fifteen minutes at most to unload, stow away several essential items, and launch out to sea, just half an hour in total.  And one late afternoon in May, with an unexciting evening stretching ahead, that’s just what I did.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Leaving the harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Once out of the harbour, I swung to port\/left\/eastwards, passing the long-abandoned \u201cLost Paradise\u201d hotel, the accommodation now only for squatting goats.  Pachnes, highest of the White Mountains, is visible from here, and from sea level, was exactly 2453m above me, almost hidden behind the lower summits of Gingilos, Volakias and Zaranokefala.  <\/p>