Which should come first? Above all a blog should be interesting to read imo. I like lots of pictures and I like happy stuff. It balances out the bad things and gives a certain equilibrium.
It isn't enjoyable going over unpleasant ground and so to add some light relief I like to include some fun pictures. After all our problem with our boat is a small piece of our lives thank goodness and we are generally having a great time living on Kefalonia and sharing our lives with our wonderful new neighbours and lately some old friends. Old in the sense we have known them a long time - they aren't old in either age or out look. LOL
So I'm starting with happy pictures taken by our friend Justin Cotter who was out here last week. Turtles are not generally easily spotted by tourists, but we were super lucky to see some at very close quarters last week and Justin and his girlfriend Sue took some great photos of the experience.
Here's the turtle as spotted a small distance away from the menfolk as they fished off the shore.
Here the turtle has swum up to the jetty and is heading towards a moored fishing boat in the hope of finding some discarded fish.
Here is the turtle as it swam right under the camera. I think this one was quite keen on being photographed!!!
These turtles are called Caretta caretta or loggerhead turtles. There is an organisation on Kefalonia - The Katelios Group which is a small organisation working to protect the natural environment of Kefalonia. They focus on the conservation of the endangered Loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta.
Justin also took some photographs of our Powercat 525 in storage to show the progression of the corrosion on powerboat approximately one month on from our original marine surveyor's photographs.
They can be seen in the folder in my media on blog.co.uk at New Powercat 525 - corrosion as on 16th June 2008
Here's one of them showing the rust on a pin which is part of the steering linkage equipment on our Powercat powered catamaran
and one showing the corrosion on one of the keel bands
