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Another move South today to the little fishing village of Petreti about five miles down the coast.

Thira of course didn’t go direct we went nearly to the mainland and back, and were having some great sailing in the afternoon just off the Lefkimmi sands, a long sand spit towards the southern end of Corfu. This is also sometimes refered to as "The Corfu Fly Trap" as it seems to attract boats like a piece of Fly Paper…

It is another one of those local hazards where they marked it with a beacon twenty odd years ago and have since ignored the fact that the sand bar now stretches a mile further out to sea.

A Jaguar with its 1 metre draft can get relatively close to it, many a deeper boat has found it the hard way, and I do remember being told about a fast moving twin screw motor yacht that ended up high and dry having tried to cut its own canal through it.

Either way if near the spit then take extreme care it is just waiting for the the unprepared.

It is one of the Ionian hazards that merits its own proximity alarm on my GPS just in case I venture too close…