sailing maloo: an old port, a big bridge and lots of muddy water

from the ship-graveyard in trizonia (to stay fair, trizonia is not all about rotten boats... but lots of it) our maloo took us to the lovely old port of nafpaktos. the port is sooo tiny that it fits about 30 small fishing boats and one sailing boat. unfortunately that was not us - but we anchored just out of it, took the dinghy in and had a superb moccachino (which is a ice chocolate with an espresso on top here) for lunch (yes, this is how filling it was;))

as we didn't quite have enough that day we continued to messolonghi. but first we had to go underneath the very impressive rio-antirrio-bridge, the world's longest mutli-span cable-stayed bridge.
the wind had kicked in, so we had a lovely sail against the 2kn of current that flowed into the gulf of corinth (so against us) and went on to the lagoon of missolonghi.

going in there is a tiny bit hairy, because you got to go through a channel (fortunately well marked) and try not to hit any of the land-bit, that comes up to 1m underneath rather muddy lagoon-like water
surface. it is actually quite funny to go past people standing in the water right next to you - a bit perturbing though too.

in the lagoon we found another one of these strange marinas, that start off nice, but then who ever takes care of it must get bored with it all and start doing something else... this one was at least operated somehow, and we were allowed to pay;) - got water and electricity with a (what felt like 250km long) extension cable.

the most interesting thing in this marina was however, to be surrounded by lots of huge sea turtles that would surface every now and then next to your boat with a loud snort to breath! (unfortunately we didn't get a photo)