Italian Islands

After our energy clearing ritual after Tunisa we had a peaceful 2 night motor-sail north to the Italian islands off of Naples. We landed mid-day on the picturesque island of Capri. It is reported to be the most famous and beautiful of all of Italy's islands. It has monumental limestone cliffs, dramatic and awesome but a little to busy and hectic with day traffic from Naples for our taste. So we spent a quiet night there and then moved on to the island of Ischia the next day.


To us, Ischia is the crown jewel of Italian islands. Lush, green and tropical as it is a volcanic island.
We found a quiet cove right under this castle and dropped anchor for days. This is our picture window right off the stern of EcstaSea. It is an Argonese castle first built in 474 BC, then destroyed and rebuilt many times over the years. It was great fun to tour and explore it.



This is a picture of the boat from the top of the castle....



















We toured most of the island, eating at a little mom and pop restaurant almost every day. Real homemade italian cooking.
We spent a day of R&R at a thermal hotsprings called Poseidon Gardens. See Richard with Poseidon!!!!!
They had a number of pools with varying degrees of heat and beautiful pagodas to lounge under and with several glasses of wine we were soooo happy.






Enjoyed our stay immensely on Ischia but needed to move to the close island of Procida for better protection from a storm heading our way. And what a storm with thunder and lightening and buckets of rain all night. We kept thinking we should be more concerned or worried than we were but felt so safe that we slept like babies. The rain has continued for several days now and we are happy being cocooned and "rocked in the bosom of EcstaSea".....
In fact it truly is like being in the womb--surrounded by water, Yemaya below and the heavens pouring all around us---Divine!!!!!

Time to move on now and travel south to the volcanic islands off of Sicily.
Did we mention that we LOOOVE this Life?