Σκιάδι, Κίμωλος / Skiadi Kimolos Greece
Στο βορειοδυτικό τμήμα της Κιμώλου, στα δυτικά του υψώματος «Σκλάβος», υπάρχει ένα τεράστιο πέτρινο μανιτάρι που οι κάτοικοι το ονομάζουν «Σκιάδι». Ένα μνημείο της φύσης που βρίσκεται στη μέση ενός γυμνού πλατώματος με υπέροχη θέα: αγκαλιάζει τις νοτιοδυτικές και δυτικές ακτές του νησιού (Ελληνικά, Μαυροσπήλια, Αθηνιάς) κι ένα μεγάλο μέρος της Μήλου.
Το «Σκιάδι» οφείλει τη δημιουργία του στα διαφορετικά πετρώματα που το αποτελούν και στους ισχυρούς ανέμους που φυσούν στην περιοχή του. Το πιο μαλακό πέτρωμα που βρίσκεται στη βάση προσβάλλεται και διαβρώνεται από τον άνεμο που μεταφέρει σκόνη ή κόκκους άμμου. Αποτέλεσμα αυτής της διεργασίας που ονομάζεται «απορρίνηση» είναι, η βάση να «τρώγεται» και να στενεύει συνεχώς, ενώ η κορυφή που, είναι πιο σκληρή, παραμένει σχεδόν άθικτη.
Σπάνιο μνημείο, όχι μόνο για την Ελλάδα αλλά σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, εντυπωσιακό για το μέγεθος και τη μορφή του, είναι ενταγμένο στον Άτλαντα των Γεωλογικών Μνημείων του Αιγαίου.
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Cyclades Regatta 2018: Kimolos island saves the day
Day five of the 2018 Cyclades Regatta, race leg three.
After one-and-half rest days on Milos, the Giorgio crew were raring to take their positions for the 20-nautical mile race from the Cycladic isle’s Adamas port to nearby little-known Kimolos island.
Twenty measly miles. It’ll be a breeze, we thought.
We’ll be there in four hours, five hours max, cooling off with a post-race celebratory swim in the deep clear waters of Kimolos’ little port of Psathi by the early afternoon.
Well, we thought wrong.
It started off promising enough, as the start horn blared for each category between 11:00 and 11:30.
We were off and racing in brisk northerly winds of some 10 to 12 knots flowing steadily through Milos’ wide sheltered natural harbour.
What a thrill to view the boat houses at the traditional fishing village of Klima and Milos’ capital Plaka, whose whitewashed homes wrap around a rocky hill, from the sea as we raced.
We sailed northwest out of the harbour and then the wind started to drop off. All boats slowed right down.
A cruise ship passed by on its way to moor at Adamas, honking its horn, joined by fast ferries flying in and out of the harbour.
We literally had the wind knocked out of our sails. Groundhog day on the water.
The first race leg of the regatta, between Kea and Milos, was heartbreakingly void of wind.
It was becoming a little ridiculous.
Come on, just give us a little wind so we can move this 40-foot baby!
Giorgio is a cruiser not (really) a racer, a lover not a fighter. So, he’s not so light. We actually nicknamed him the Love Boat as he nurtured such good relations between crew members.
Inching ever so slowly into open sea, we reached a rock islet named Akratha, just south of the harbour exit.
Giorgio literally put on the brakes and we watched that islet – which we dubbed the Island of Hell - for what seemed like hours on end, as we bobbed up and down like a rubber duck in the bathtub.
Blip, blip, blip, blip. Surely, the temperature of the deep cobalt sea was tepid, though we would have preferred to be in it rather than looking at it.
At one point, a couple of boat crews found themselves dangerously close to the sharp, rocky coast of the islet but, thankfully, they were able to unstick themselves.
We had the spinnaker hoisted but it just hung there, doing little but flapping back and forth uselessly.
We could see Kimolos clearly in front of us, however, we needed to first reach Monastiri Cape - at its northern tip. It was still a very long way off.
Then, suddenly, a burst of wind appeared from out of nowhere and caught us unawares.
We all snapped into position and the gust was so strong that I found myself having difficulties trimming the spinnaker pole, pulling it away from the forestay.
Whooping a little with joy as we surfed the Aegean, the fun didn’t last long. Within about 10 minutes, the knots had dropped and so did our speed.
At 17:30, after at least six hours of searching for wind, we ran the numbers and took a crew decision to abandon the race.
There was no way we would make it to the finish, at Psathi port, within our time limit.
Monitoring our competitors with Greek-designed ship tracking service MarineTraffic, via AIS trackers attached to each boat, we saw that several other crews had already given up the ghost.
Just one boat terminated. It was Cosmote Erytos 2, in the ORC International class, skippered by Kostas Manthos.
The Erytos crew managed to round Monastiri Cape and, from there, took hold of decent northerly winds, passing the finish line and entering Psathi.
The next day was a rest day, so we took full advantage of it to spend some time checking out Kimolos’ beaches.
The most energetic crew members took a dip at the beach in Psathi, one of the few island ports where it’s clean enough to swim, and we all wolfed down a long, lazy breakfast at a seafront café.
All crews met up at Prassa beach, in the northeast, which is considered the isle’s most beautiful beach.
Fine white sand and shallow, aquamarine waters, it felt like a tropical hideaway. We finally had a proper swim.
At 36 square kilometres in size, Kimolos is not exactly tiny, yet it’s easy to navigate its few yet spectacular beaches.
On our way back to the main town, Chorio, we stopped at Goupa Kara, where boat houses like those on Milos, are built into the rock face.
From there, we jumped into deep turquoise waters and swam out to explore two rock islets known as Revmatonisia.
The day concluded at tamarisk-lined Kalamitsi beach with flash-fried seafood meze and plenty of laughs at a taverna run by a fellow sailor from our Athens club who happens to hail from the island.
As the sun set, we looked around us and across at the traditional village of Pollonia on Milos and completely forgot that we didn’t even place in the race.
Videography by Carlo Raciti
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Τρεις Μέρες στην Κίμωλο (3 days in KIMOLOS) may 2017
Kimolos is a small beautiful island in Cyclades, lodated next to the much more popular Milos island.
We traveled there with a small ferry from Milos (Pollonia port). There are 3-4 daily during summer season. The other option is to take the regular ferry from Piraeus and other islands around.
It’s a typical daytrip from Milos but hopefully spent there 3 full days and didn’t regret it as it’s a great island with calm ambiance.
Psathi is the port of Kimolos but the main village is Chorio, just above the port and is the main settlement on the island with everything a visitor may need (rooms, café, taverns, small stores, bakery, travel agencies and ATM). Try ksino (local soft sour cheese) at the taverns and ladenia(old type local pizza) from a bakery.
There are many small cute churches and the cathedral of the island. Don’t miss the ruined medieval castle in the center of the village and then visit the small archaeological museum (opposite the cathedral). There’s also a folk & maritime museum inside the castle but it wasn’t open during our visit. Locals are very friendly with a nice laid back attitude, definitely not spoiled by tourism like in other islands.
We spent some time talking to the old ladies and other locals during the day but we preferred to book a room near the sea. Our choice was Sardis Hotel in Alyki beach (they have a great restaurant on ground floor). Alyki beach (and then Bonatsa & Kalamitsi beaches) were ok (crystal waters anyway) but don’t miss the best beach on the island which is Prassa beach. For something off the beaten path try Ellinika beach where you can see the ruins of a sunken ancient town!
Last but not least walk the hiking path to Skiadi for the huge mushroom-shaped rock! It’s an easy hike, just 3km away from Chorio, worth to try it in the morning to avoid the heat.
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Wild Goose takes its crew from Adamas on the island of Milos to Pirgonisi beach on nearby Kimolos. Greek Cyclades.
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Návštěva ostrova Kimolos z Milosu - Chorio, pláž Prassa.
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