The next morning we had breakfast with Jon and Jane. They made us their breakfast special of Survival Pancakes. These pancakes were made of flower and water and dried fruit. A generous helping of honey or jam helped them down and they were very filling.
We needed to get more supplies, so decided to take one of our yachts across to the opposite side of the town where the main shops resided. After much discussion, Steve agreed to take his tub across and to show us how to get the most out of the available wind by sailing to the shops across the busy harbour. The trip across was an eye opener as Steve and Kathy sailed close to other yachts and eked every breath of power out of the small puffs of wind. We still managed over 3 knots of speed and moored up without problems.
We purchased our vitals and then headed back. Fiona tried to sail us back but the wind vanished so we used our motor to return.
Our morning briefing had instructed us to sail to Kioni. We plotted our route and this time left later in the hope of catching more wind. Again we stopped at a great bay for a do it yourself lunch - yet more tuna and mayo.
We arrived in Kioni at about 18:00 - again we were in a raft and had to get to shore by dingy. The lead boat had organised a punch and dip evening on the quay which we went to - they had made a martini based punch which was very nice. After that the six of us headed to one of the tavernas and had another good meal.
On the way back to our boats we meet the rest of the flotilla who were extremely merry and vocal. As we headed back on the dingy's they were seen doing a conga to another bar - needless to say the next day they all looked a bit worse for wear - especially the lead boat team.
When we got back to our boats I remembered John had forgotten his phone which he had left to charge in the Taverna (very John !!). He and Jon got back in the dingy and sailed across to the restaurant and got the phone back.
On there way back they decided it would be fun to take the other boats dingy's and move them from the quay and tie them up on the ropes half way between the boats and quay. We heard the other guys on the Flotilla arrive at the quay and they were some what dismayed that their dingy's were now half way in the harbour - not sure how they retrieved them. We thought there would be some kind of retribution the next day but I don't think it clicked with them that it was the hand work of the 2 John's.
Kioni was a really lovely little town and harbour and we were sorry to leave it.
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