Koufonision

Sailing South of Koufos

After Amorgos, we sailed to a bay on the South of Keros - a small uninhabited island just South of Naxos. We had intended to just have a look but it was so nice and quiet that we stayed the night.

Lucifer "enjoying" sailing

Next morning we had a gentle sail round the island and up to Koufonisia, passing between Kato Koufonisi and Glaronisi.  At first I thought a tripper boat had brought some tourists to a cave on Glaronisi. Then to my amazement, I realised there was a headless carcass (probably a sheep or goat but possibly a pig) hanging by a rope from the roof of the cave. The people were all working at something - probably washing cloths. We have no real idea what they were doing but guessed that maybe they had russled the animal, butchered it in the cave and were just cleaning up before sailing off to sell it.

The harbour at Koufonisia town has been improved a lot since the latest pilot book was written. The old mole has been widened and turned into a proper quay and a new mole has been built to the West completely surrounding the new harbour. There are now some lazy lines and water and electricity. The harbour master helps you in but didn't make any charge for anything while we were there.

Kofonisia Church

Boat yard in a cove near harbour

The town is charming with beautiful houses, a lovely church and surprisingly good supplies for such a tiny place. It has lots of good restaurants. Apparently, it heaves with tourists from Naxos in July and August but while we were there in May, it was lovely.

Pori Bay

After shopping and filling with water, we went off to Pori bay on the Eastern tip of the island. Its a large, gorgeous, well sheltered bay with good sand to anchor on and warm turquoise water. There doesn't seem to be any permanent habitation or development although there are a couple of buildings in one corner. A walking route goes past and a very few bodies are scattered on the beach. A small, inoffensive tripper boat came in for an hour and moored on the stubby mole on the North East shore.