Aegina at last!

 We left Serifos and sailed past the beautiful (but crowded) beach on which we had spent Friday afternoon

and motor-sailed up to Kithnos on Saturday, beating into a force 4 wind and only metre waves.
Kai went on sleeping with the leecloth to hold him in bed.

When he woke up, Kai came up on deck and said "This is how I remember it, light winds and calm seas", though the waves were still breaking over the deck. On the way we met two converging schools of small dolphins, which briefly played around the boat, but as usual avoided being photographed or filmed.
We anchored with a line ashore in Kolona Bay,

near the sand spit at the end,

 and had dinner in the taverna overlooking the spit.

We left for Poros as soon as it got light on Sunday morning, with a good Force 6 wind until we got to the halfway point, Agios Georgios, after which the wind dropped to Force 4.

Kai again slept most of the way.

In Poros we anchored in Russian Bay. Soon after we arrived two boats of Americans came in alongside us and Kai was delirious with joy. He had a great time with his American friends, Ben, Nicki and Dai Lin, sitting on their boom,

swinging from their davits,

and, most exciting of all, the swing of death on the spinnaker halyards, ours

.and theirs.

Kai completed his death-defying feats by swimming under the keel.

Scott and Lynette invited us all for dinner on Sunday night, which made a really pleasant evening. Kai was very jealous of their kids, who spend six months each year on the boat, but not so envious of their having to do boat school.
Kai slept in the hammock now it was not so windy.

After two nights in Russian Bay we said goodbye to our new friends and had yet another beat up to Aegina, though this time in gentler winds, and tied up on the town quay ready to start the round of washing and cleaning ready for our new visitors.