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Anchored - Isla Del Giglio, Seno di Campese

After an exhilarating sail and boring motor, we anchored at dawn at Campese on Isla Del Giglio.  There is great history to this and most of the islands around Italy.  Giglio (not Gigilo as Cody would prefer it to be called) has a castle at the top that served the residents of Giglio as refuge from invading pirates.  Apparently, when the island was invaded, the locals would all run up the hills to seek protection in the fortified walls of the castle.  The castle, originally built some 1500 years ago, of course continues to be inhibited.  Shawn and I of course had to see.  Cody feigned some interest, but it disappeared once he saw a beach full of bikinis...  Well the bottoms at least of bikinis.  He stayed on the beach, we walked on.

Hitting the 2km marker on the trail brought some relief to us.  We were making headway in the 100 degree weather walking the steep incline to the castle.  Turning the corner and seeing the sign "Castello 4km" brought horror.  We tried flagging a bus, but were denied (turns out if they stop, they cannot get going again).  So continued to make our way up the road - which eventually became a trail through both active and abandoned vineyards.  Eventually we made it to the castle (which we told Cody was well worth the hike).  Turns out that it really was just about 300 tiny condos that are 1500 years old (not sure how the sewage system worked).  We were able to find a vendor that sold us ice cold water and wandered through the castle.  After we caught our breath the wind picked up and cooled the interior walkways of the castle.  Shawn considered buying a sweatshirt, which made me think he was suffering mild heat stroke.  Need i say, we took the bus back to the boat.

Attached is a short video we made while sailing to Isla Del Giglio.  It is hard to make out the audio over the wind - Basically I am describing the boats performance (sailing between 9-10 knots in 13 knots of breeze).  Shawn is casually watching for other boats - Cody of course was resting his eyes.  I have to give him some credit however, he is spending a few hours the last few days reading a book.  We continue to be happy with the speed and the comfort of the boat.  I will admit, i miss the excitement at times of the heal of a monohull, but the balance of performance and lack of fatigue from needing to balance all the time is great.

Enjoy the video and the photos.

 

-Note from shawn... video and photos soon