Ioanian Sea. Vlikho.
December 5, 2007
VLIKHO bay provides good all-round shelter to anchor in a muddy bottom of 2-8m. Anchoring off the quay of the quiet Vlikho village can be uncomfortable in stronger daytime winds. bay provides good all-round shelter to anchor in a muddy bottom of 2-8m. Anchoring off the quay of the quiet Vlikho village can be uncomfortable in stronger daytime winds. bay provides good all-round shelter to anchor in a muddy bottom of 2-8m. Anchoring off the quay of the quiet Vlikho village can be uncomfortable in stronger daytime winds.
Ioanian Sea. Vlikho.
December 5, 2007
VLIKHO bay provides good all-round shelter to anchor in a muddy bottom of 2-8m. Anchoring off the quay of the quiet Vlikho village can be uncomfortable in stronger daytime winds. bay provides good all-round shelter to anchor in a muddy bottom of 2-8m. Anchoring off the quay of the quiet Vlikho village can be uncomfortable in stronger daytime winds. bay provides good all-round shelter to anchor in a muddy bottom of 2-8m. Anchoring off the quay of the quiet Vlikho village can be uncomfortable in stronger daytime winds.
Ioanian Sea. Vassiliki
December 5, 2007
VASSILIKI’s port is located in the south-east of Lefkas deep in the large synonymous bay. In the west side of this bay – close to village Pondi – is a nice anchorage (4-8m depth). The actual port is located in the east of the bay and is very shallow. Just stay close to the breakwater. A natural spring favors this part of the island and runs through the south of Vassiliki. Here you can swim from the village’s long, flat beach or go to Cape Lefkata or Sappho’s Leap, the most southerly cape on the island. There once stood a shrine to Apollo. Here, too, they say that the poet Sappho took her life, flinging herself from the white cliffs, a hopeless victim of her unrequited love for Phaon.
Ionian Sea. Scorpios
December 5, 2007
Scorpios island is private (owned by the Onassis family) but as long as you don’t cross the high water mark you can anchor on both sides of a small sandy isthmus south of the island. The little isle left to Onassis island is Tsokari and has a visible reef.
Ionian Sea. Lefkas Island. NIDRI
December 5, 2007
NIDRI village is one of the most popular holiday spots on Lefkas island. Nidri was the home of the German archaeologist Dorpfeld, who maintained that Lefkada was none other than Homer’s Ithaca. The Nidri quay self provides water, fuel etc. The villa on Madouri Island belongs to the family of Aristotelis Valaoritis, one of Greece’s national poets. Anchor in front of the baroque building.
Ionian Sea. Lefkas Island
December 5, 2007
LEFKAS is a mountainous island, covered with dense vegetation to the east and south. Its eastern coast slopes gently down to the sea, which is sheltered with thickly wooded islets. The most famous of these are Scorpios, Madouri and Sparti. Lefkas is separated from the Greek Mainland by a narrow channel via a pontoon bridge. The capital of the island, Lefkas town, was the result of the establishment of salt-pans during the Middle Ages.
Lefkas canal enables the sailors to pass along the east side of the island, which has the 90% of the good anchorages. From the north the entrance of the canal can be found by locating the Santa Maura Fort, founded in 1300 by John Orsini, a Frankish Knight who held Lefkada as a fief. The canal starts after Lefkas Town and is marked by red and green poles and by red and green buoys when it turns south. The ancient submerged breakwater is located opposite the St George Fort. Go stern-to or bows-to the town quay on the NE or S side. The muddy bottom is generally good holding.
Ionian Sea. Paxi
December 5, 2007
PAXI is the smallest of the six main Ionian Islands. When you step ashore at GAIOS, the islands little port, you will find an exquisite miniature world just waiting to be discovered. Its charming 19th century houses, threaded by narrow lanes, lie at the end of a closed “fjiord” surrounded by trees and shrubs. You can moor right in the middle of the busy scenery of this charming place.
At the entrance of this picturesque harbor you can make out the islets of Panagia and Agios Nikolaos with its Venetian Castle and windmill.
LAKKA is a little seaside settlement with a tiny harbor, built on a sheltered bay whose coasts are covered with olives and pines. Its low houses are particularly distinctive, painted in interesting shades of brown and indigo. The turquoise waters invite you for a unique swim overboard.
Ionian Sea. Parga
December 5, 2007
Parga is a small picturesque town situated North - West from Preveza, where you can have the most wonderful swims along with the most exciting day and night life. The town was created by Constantinople refugees who sought shelter here. They founded a settlement and built a castle in "Petzvolio". Today the locals call the ruins "Kasteli". Old Parga is mentioned from the 12th century as one of the most important Epitoric towns.
On the 21st of March 1401, the Pargiotes signed a treaty with the Royal Democracy of Venice, which had established itself in Parga, so that they could prevent the Turks from conquering the town. The castle was probably built during this time, only to be demolished in 1537 by the pirate Harentine Barbarossa. The Venetians rebuilt it in 1567. The second time it was destroyed, was by the Turks in 1571.
The Venetians rebuilt it again after the Naval Battle of Nafpaktos. It remained impregnable until the Pargiotes were forced to abandon it because the British government sold it to Ali Pasha.
On the 22nd of May 1930 the people of Parga were liberated after 100 years of enslavement .
Parga is a town with ancient roots, deeply influenced by the Western civilization and culture. It existed for many years as a natural boundary between east and west. This coexistence of these two civilizations here in this small edge of the epirotic peninsula, has graced it with a unique charm.
When you first visit Parga you will be impressed with its lush vegetation, its surrounding mountains and its hundred years old olive groves. It’s beautiful beaches and isolated bays hide behind huge rocks that protect them as if they were valuable treasures.
Ionian Sea. Corfu
December 5, 2007
Corfu (Kerkyra) is the most important and most northerly of the Ionian islands and is situated only 1 nm off the coast of Albania and the Greek region of Epirus. It offers gentle green uplands in the south and rugged limestone hills in the north, rising to 906 m in the double peak of Pantokrator.
Ionian Sea. Preveza
December 5, 2007
The Preveza port of entry lies on the Greek mainland guarding the gulf of Amvrakia. Leading lights will guide your way into the 
gulf. On the left side of the channel a dense forest and the Fort St. George can be seen. The channel is not likely to live up to the “official” depth of 8 meters - due to silting 6 meters and a strong cross-current is mentioned.
The city is famous for:
Nikopolis – Ancient Nikopolis is located on the peninsula of Preveza, in SW Epirus and covers an area of 900 hectares. It was founded by Octavianus, after the naval battle of Actium, in 31 B.C. The inhabitants of the neighbouring cities of Epirus, Leucas, and Acarnania were then forced to settle in this area. The city enjoyed special political and financial privileges, had its own mint and every four years celebrated the Actia, festivals including athletic, musical and racing contests. Many intellectuals of the period, such as Epictetus (A.D. 89) gathered in Nikopolis. The city continued to be inhabited during the Byzantine period. Some of the Roman monuments of the site (dated to 1st-4th centuries A.D.) have been restored: the Odeum (in 1969-1972), the north thermae (in 1973-1974), the Nymphaeum (in 1975), the large theatre, the Roman wall and the villa of Manius Antoninus which contained remarkable mosaic floors (in 1978-1984).