We have been in Albania for a week. We will start a 12-day road trip this Friday, but this post is about our trip “north,” and our entry into Albania. (Spoiler alert: we love it!)
After saying goodbye to Jennifer, Michael and I checked out of the hotel and walked to the port police office to check out of Patras. They were closed. So, we walked to the boat, thinking we would motor back and get to the port police via water. Michael hung around on Seahike just near the shore (we weren’t allowed to anchor or tie briefly to the quay) while I took the dinghy ashore. Still closed. We were a bit apprehensive because we’d heard that you could be fined for leaving a place without checking out with the port police. But we needed to be on our way, so we decided to cross our fingers and risk it.
Because we’d gotten a late start due to the whole port police being closed thing, we knew we couldn’t get as far as we had hoped that day. We had about 80 nm to go. Not to worry. We decided to head for a small bay – Goat Bay – on the NE side of Meganisi, about 84 nm away. We dropped the anchor and took two lines ashore. There were only four boats in the bay. It was a lovely, quiet night.
Here are some pictures of our journey from Patras to Goat Beach, Meganisi and of the anchorage.
