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61. volcanoes

we take a look at a 4 000 year old

bronze age

settlement and yeah volcanoes that's

when we thought it was fairly benign

we just heard a big rumble from the top

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we continue our journey through the

elonian islands last time you saw a

sailing past

stromboli it wasn't really that active

we had a fantastic sail down and

everyone got their shoots out

it's great yeah no stromboli

puffer smoke well that's it we had

unfinished business but more about that

later

so we found this fantastic anchorage on

the island of panoria

really well protected nice beach for the

dogs to run around on

and uh an iron age settlement

now you can see it here on google earth

big

stone circles we went up but didn't have

our camera with us so we asked david

and caroline to take some shots for us

now we walked up from the other side of

the peninsula

but they used the path from the beach on

this side

it's quite precarious and very steep you

can understand

why the settlement was built there

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we're a little out of breath having

walked up the steps

and now you can see the anchorage we're

in

and you can see the town on the other

side of the beach

i'm going to try and walk along here

there's a prehistoric village along here

which may be worth

christ absolutely

the savior from texas

some of the historic artifacts found on

diggs in

1948 and 2012 are still in the museum on

the island

this particular settlement is

thought to have existed at least 1500 bc

i think they said there's nearly 20 odd

of these circular rooms with one

entrance door here uh there's only one

rectangular one rectangular room

in the whole settlement and this is it

in front of me i don't know whether you

can see it but there is

the inner circle with the entrance

around there and then the rectacular

rent ripped rhett

rectangular building around the outside

they thought that may be

a public building maybe the chiefs

building

me maybe place of worship here's another

one obviously they've partially

reconstructed some of these

but it's a beautiful sight beautiful

place 1500

bc so this is history that you and the

kids can visit for free

there's no charge you just walk up the

hill all the information is there on

signboards it's really

well worth a visit

one evening we grabbed oscar and a

camera and decided to take the walk into

town well

almost into town there were these

amazing small doors

located all over the place either people

were very short

or um doors were expensive i guess now

there's very few petrol vehicles or cars

on the island and that's the reason that

these roads are so narrow

they use golf trolleys to get around

even the taxi is a golf trolley

you'll see one in a minute

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okay so we didn't make it all the way

into town it was about three kilometers

but we did make it to this bar on the

top of the hill

and the beer was very cold and the

welcome was very warm

so we stopped and had one or two

oh there's the golf trolley now richard

and sean had bought us a beer over on

our website

so richard shawn thanks it was lovely

the anchorage was so well protected we

actually stayed there a week

but then we had unfinished business at

stromboli

so we sailed back on ourselves found an

anchorage in the corner of the island

and decided to stay there and this time

stromboli was in a different mood

so we're on stromboli that's uh we're

ranking way out there

the other side of those motorboats

just see them

come in by dinghy

the beaches

all of these volcanic stones black sand

and it's it's like

crystals all sparkly and it catches the

sun

but boy has it been hot here today

really hot 40 odd degrees celsius

yeah it's been hot right

onwards and upwards see us where

where that thingy is just beyond where

that thing is

much

this is the little island off the

northeast

corner of uh stromboli

and uh it's alleged that when stromboli

first erupted

this one chunk of rock was the piece

that blew out the top of it

how true that is well i don't know but

interesting lighthouse on the top i

think there's some access steps on the

other side

probably a ladder or something but i'd

be a long i'll climb up there

the island of stromboli in the

background shrouded in mist

we're now going to go around and see the

uh the life side of the volcano

hopefully

it's spitting and puffing but we'll see

this there's a carving of oscar

oscar's head on the island

even got your gruffy beard oscar

we're just motoring past the back of

stromboli you can see at the top there

see the smoke rising from the outside of

the

the rim of the volcano

just when we thought it was fairly

benign

we just heard a big rumble from the top

big rumble like uh like thunder

and now there's uh loads of smoke coming

out the top

and all these little steam vents have

appeared at the side

that's uh

that was interesting

with stromboli erupting again we decided

to get out of dodge

and went south

so we found this lovely little anchorage

it was very

quiet and peaceful but it turns out on a

sunday

everybody comes here in the distance you

can see

the lighthouse let's see if we can get

that

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we have to go in the tender

with oscar

to the lighthouse and around the

lighthouse and into town to give him a

walk because there are no beaches the

little beaches you can see here are all

big stones

and up there is the extinct

volcano which looks

great on google earth

but only one thing i would say is

there is a constant swell i don't know

if you can see that

from the ferry boats and

uh it doesn't stop until about 10

o'clock at night

but the water is absolutely crystal

clear

just wipe the water line down on the

copper coat

i had to swim and go on the paddle

boards

another stunning spot that's lipari

over there and in the distance

over there

that is sicily and mount

etna and we're wobbling all over the

place

that's the island of lapari over there

but this is where we are

i have been for the last couple of days

i'll put along on that for you

some a bit of swirl that comes in from

these

boats that uh run between the islands

the hydro falls and

the cargo ships and that lighthouse

there

we've come round from the other side of

the island towards the lighthouse and

then around the corner

and into the bay so we can walk oscar

because this is the only

really safe landing place it's just a

public jetty

a stone beach there's cindy over there

with oscar

doing his impersonation of a husky

they're now dormant

volcano well

on hopes it's dormant so we've walked

out to the end of the point

just before the lighthouse and there's a

a little lagoon

in here it's got sticks planted in it

planted it's got sticks in it

i'm not there for if anyone knows um

why they just put sticks in this

saltwater lagoon

put it in the description be really

interested tonight

there's a book swap here cindy

some in english as well

come on oscar had enough excitement for

one day

yes another stunning anchorage and we

also managed to get some drone shots

didn't we do thanks mate

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hi guys hi there welcome to another

video

yep we're still in the elonian islands

uh

on the southwest coast of italy uh just

north of sicily

dina straits are just down there sicily

is just over there

and uh that's the island of selena

behind us

i have no clue what this anchorage is

called in fact it's not even a

designated anchorage

we couldn't find it on any of the normal

sites

but we've put a link in the in the video

so that you can find it

uh look it up on google earth or put it

in your logbook so that

you can head here too it's been really

pretty um

it's been scorchio yeah very warm

very very little wind the last two weeks

two weeks

there's nothing predicted for the next

two weeks so we're just

bumming about the island the islands um

there's not as many anchorages as there

were in the balearics but

the islands are much smaller but uh it's

very volcanic um as you've seen in the

video

very dramatic landscape very dramatic

and

very dramatic when we went past trombone

yeah that was an experience

to have to have it go off literally as

we were

we were going past and the sound guy

just goes right through you doesn't it

yeah just vibrates through

all these islands it went off again last

night when we were on our way back from

walking oscar on the beach yeah and we

just heard it and saw a big puff of

black smoke

and it's 25 25 miles away yeah

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that's all for now goodbye sail safe

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