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Agia Kyriaki / Vatses (SW)Astypalaia
al límitehoy al abrigo del cabo — mar de fondo de través/por detrás (nivel ciudad)
- ventana
- Work the morning: after midday a shifty wind slides down the slope, the bar on Vatses beach opens and people arrive both by road and by sea. June and early autumn are the quietest months. The track is dirt, so you do not want to drive back in the dark — and night hunting in Greece is banned anyway.
- marea
- You can leave the level out of your planning — it is a toy here. The sea's memory decides a lot more: after a southerly blow the surge keeps working the shallows for another day and the murk stays. With settled northerlies, though, surface water is pushed off the coast and cold water rises along the drop — which is why this side clears up during meltemi.
- abrigo
- South-west coast: mountain at your back, nothing ahead of you all the way to the horizon. The ridge kills the northerly so thoroughly that at the height of the meltemi it is nearly calm along the rocks. But anything arriving from the south or south-west rolls in without a single obstacle, and then the bay is out completely.
- condiciones
- The perfect day here is a hard northerly or north-easterly: the island holds the wind, the water over the reef stands still and you see to the bottom. On southerly swell do not try it even when light — the shore is steep, the exit over rock turns nasty, and at twenty metres it surges and clouds.
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