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22.30 hrs

We ate excellent locally caught red mullet and drank the taverna's first class home made wine. A real "find"! Two more yachts came and anchored for the night.

Five large stern trawlers arrived and unloaded into refrigerated lorries.

From the wooded side of the bay came the sounds of two nightingales trying to out do each other, a wonderful concert intermingled with the still night air.

16.05.2001
Anchored at Ormos Sikias, Khalkidiki
40.02.227N 23.59.463 East
15.30 hrs
Temp 22.2C
Baro 1021
Wind SE2

We motored the 14 miles here as what little wind there was came on the nose all the way even when we turned the headland.

Ormos Sikias typifies what people come to Kalkidiki for, superb beaches, excellent food and sunshine. We hear the weather is going to get very hot during the week.

Ashore we ate some traditional Greek food and a speciality of the taverna, calamari stuffed with cheese and tomatoes.



Both were excellent and so fresh. The taverna was just five steps from the sea!

The season is still early here and few people are on holiday at this time. From the 15th of June the tourists really begin to arrive. The brother of the taverna owner is a fisherman and he tells the same story we have heard all over Greece. Fish stocks are depleting and the winters are getting dryer and warmer. The climate is on the change.
After lunch we moved in towards the bigger beach to ensure we were anchored for the night over sand, which is very good holding. Being in a bay we are more vulnerable so take extra precautions.