ocean-pilgrim

Category: Musings

  • Salty Tales

    Salty Tales

    Actually, before we leave the Eastern Greek islands, I need to tell some stories about 3 of the islands we passed quite quickly through and I barely mentioned last year.  These 3 islands are closely linked through geography and history and a long and noble maritime presence. These islands are Chios, the largest, Oinousses, a…

  • Slow Sailing in 2023

    Slow Sailing in 2023

    It’s been a while now since we left Australia for Greece and sailing life and I find it a bit startling that we have not managed to sail very far as yet.  But this (life) journey has always been about control and surrender.  The two sides of the one coin that we cycle between from…

  • Making Our Way South

    Making Our Way South

    From the moment I had heard about Khalkidhiki I had wanted to go there.  Three fingers of land hanging down from the mainland of Greece into the northern Aegean Sea, the third of them being a peninsula of monasteries and holy to all eastern orthodox Christians.  At its isolated and somewhat desolate end sits Mt…