Good morning on board Cascade. If you've just joined us well we're anchored off of Mykonos,
one of the most famous islands in all of Greece, and last night well we let our hair down on this
party island. Over the past few weeks though we've taken you off the beaten path by sea
on a Beneteau Sense 51 thanks to Navigare Yachting, showing you some of the more untouched and less crowded
islands near Mykonos, that ooze natural beauty and in some cases are far more cheaper than Mykonos.
oh my go... so if you've missed those episodes go back and check them out. Also we've just
started a private facebook group for Patreons so if you want to join us and support us I'll
leave a link in the description but on this episode we're going to answer your questions,
the do's and don'ts here in Greece. We're happy to move but you've got to give us a chance.
Why we have no fear jumping in the sea with 200 meters below us. And we're also going to literally
sail you to a trendy venetian-built island. Wow bloody beautiful. Right now we're anchored
off of Mykonos, which is part of the Cyclades, a group of islands you can see here in this region.
We're currently on the west coast so this will make it easy for us to sail to Syros, which is
just 20 nautical miles away.
So rise and shine everyone.
So let's dust off that hangover with a big bowl of carbs.
Chris did however have a really cool past technique to share with us.
Tell us about your trick.
So apparently an old Italian lady showed me this.
This is how you spread your pasta around before you put the water in so when it cooks
it's slowly all falls in at the same time so I'll give you a demo are you ready.
Okay ready.
Pretty close but not quite but it sits like this right yeah and as it cooks it
it all falls in and spins in at the same time really.
Are we putting salt water in there yeah I cooked with saltwater it makes it pretty salty but i'd go half and half.
Have you done it with salt.
No.
Alright there's half salt water in there. This is a great little
tip and trick if you're wanting to conserve the fresh water in your tanks especially if
you don't have a water maker on board. And it also gives so much more flavor to your pasta as well.
With a bit of food in our bellies spirits were rising and after the calmest of days recently we
were really excited to see more than just a couple of knots on our instruments. You guys ready yeah so
the sails went up. We were utilizing those electric winches.
and we were flying into the port of Syros.
All right, ya ready.
And while we were coming in hot, I quickly went down to clean up all the mess I'd made cooking.
I am a messy cook. I do this so that when we arrive we can just hit the ground running into town.
But as we got closer to the port we realize that the wind and the weights from ferries and traffic
continuously coming and going could get pretty nasty in this bustling harbour, so instead we opted
for an abandoned port a little further out which doesn't get slammed by wakes as much. And because
the concrete infrastructure isn't used anymore it's become a popular spot for boaties. We're
just gonna need a ton of fenders.
It's been a pretty wild 12 months since first learning how to sail. I said the stick-aflax
is going everywhere. It's so hard to believe how far we've come together in that time.
Sailing in Australia was our first ever experience sailing in general so, this has literally opened up
so many doors for us. In Australia some days we would sell for like seven hours we'd have to do
overnight passages quite constantly. It is just so cool here. It's just so different to Australia.
So I think the best thing about sailing in Greece is the fact that all the islands are so close,
like literally a hop skip and a jump and you're in another island. You could sell for two three hours
bunny hop your way around, there's no real sleep deprivation. The tides here are 20 centimeters.
Some of the ones we're experiencing in Brisbane on a daily basis with two, two meters. And so we were
constantly having to do mathematical equations, the swirl was more intense. For those who aren't
boaties, the problem with big tides is if you don't get your maths right and don't leave enough room
under the keel, you could hit the seabed. This is called a grounding, hence why we have found sailing
in Greece a lot less stressful, because it doesn't have those monster tides. But to answer this
question, 'how are you guys feeling that the Aegean sea has not any dangerous creatures at all?'
Well, back home there were a heap more sharks and marine life. For example there are around 20 shark attacks
a year in Australia, according to Google. While over here in Greece, there have been just 15 in the last
170 years, with just one fatality, so we felt a lot safer swimming in the sea here. One thing that did
bite though here in Greece I had issues using some of my usual banking and social media apps
for example on Instagram I lost the ability to post reels and both John and i weren't able to
access music either which sucked. So Rachel told me about her surf shark VPN and it was amazing.
I downloaded Surfshark on the app store straight away and changed my IP address to an Australian
one. So i was able to tell my phone that it was virtually back in Australia even though I was
physically still here in Greece and I did get all my app features back. So when Surf Shark reached
out to me to sponsor this video, I was genuinely so excited to share this news with you because having
a VPN saved us from leaving you guys in the lurch on social media. It's also great for a ton of other
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Another really important tip: if you're used to seeing moorings look like this, wind up to 34 knots
mono up to 35 meters. Well here in Greece they can be old looking jerry cans that look disused for us
we learnt the hard way we saw other yachties parking up amongst the containers and assumed
the moorings were disused. I think this is just how it is here right? We anchored near one at 7pm
at night thinking the day was over and we were in a good position, when we got caught out, when the
owner of this blue jerry can returned. We're happy to move but you got to give us a chance. So I hope
you got something out of those tips for now though we're about to walk into the main town of Syros
which is called Ermoupoli, and it's right over there in the distance. So we just parked up cascade
and we're walking down to the town. Beautiful little marina nearby with these cute little boats.
This town is so pretty it's got a real Venetian vibe completely different to any other Greek
island that we have seen on our trip. It's been a big day sailing it's around 3 p.m in the
afternoon now so, we'll go for a walk for a couple of hours and then we're gonna grab a bite to eat.
People first started settling here in Syros 5000 years ago, in the early bronze age. It was home
to the great philosopher Ferrekadis who became the teacher of Pythagoras in the 6th century.
But constant pirate invasions and barbarian raids devastated Syros over and over forcing residents
to move to the top of the hill. Over hundreds of years Turks, Persians, Romans, Franks and Greeks
have all settled here leaving behind their cultural traces. This is such a unique little town.
It's really picturesque, it's absolutely beautiful. Even the roads are marble here, wow!
And in the 1800s the port became the center of trade the most important commercial harbour in
Greece. It's very industrial and it feels a little Venetian here and it's just
really cool that it's so different, so we're just having a walk around the
town square is behind me i think there might be a wedding happening right now.
But its most prosperous period lasted until German troops arrived in World War 2.
Today it's a bustling quirky town with so much personality, and the gelato from Django
is off the charts. That is so good.
thank you
So guys I have some news. I guess it's positive and negative i didn't get the job. That job that
i went for the other day.
It went down to myself and another person so they ended up getting it which is a shame. But at the same time
the positive is I have more time to spend editing and filming and working on our channel.
but it obviously was not meant to be. This was obviously just like
a three-month contract, it was nothing big but it was just a shame because you know we're hoping to
to save money so that we can go off and and do this again. Anyway that was my first
job interview in about a decade, so it was good practice regardless. You know i think
the one annoying thing about it was though, Rach, John and Chris have gone out to explore
the island and I was left here for this finishing off of the job interview and
they just don't bloody send it to me by an email just to say sorry you're a little unsuccessful.
So if visiting Syros, you can tie up to this abandoned marina it is completely free for
us to stay having all these fenders here on this marina is extremely important because
as the fairies go out the massive wake just pushes the boat into this concrete slab. But
we're about to head off we're about to bring the lines in and we're going to an island called Kea.
Okie dokie i'm going to slip this one first?
Just untie it and put it through. Yep.
I'm gonna bow thruster out. Yep.
Okay I'm gonna slip this line. John's gonna bow thruster out and then Chris is gonna slip that back line.
Ready
Well done team.
The best time to sail in Greece is of course summer, but the shoulder season isn't bad either,
although the water is a little chilly still. The end of May and early June for
us was absolutely spectacular. Another one of my favorite things about sailing here in Greece
is the color of the water so crystal blue some of the anchorages that we have stayed in have been
absolutely mesmerizing, majestic, magical, just breathtaking.
Good work!
So we just went to Syros and I just got off the phone to my Mum. It turns out that my background, my
great great grandmother was born in Syros. I am blown away, that was definitely one of my favorite
islands here in Greece. I definitely wish we had more time on the island and maybe I can learn a
little bit more about the history and family ties that we may have there still. So my background
is obviously Greek, uh and I'm a bit Maltese which means i'm also probably a little bit Spanish. I
was born in Australia. My Mum and Dad were born in Australia but my grandparents were from overseas,
except for my Dad's mum, she was Australian. I definitely noticed that the locals loved that
I could speak a little bit of Greek, so if you're visiting I would encourage you to learn a little
bit, it means so much to the people here. So I'll give you a few little tips if you're visiting.
Yassas means like hello. So yassas. If you're going to a restaurant and you like chicken instead
of saying chicken you could say kota. And if you're new here, make sure you hit that subscribe button