Portugal
Agiofili (Canyon)Lefkada
al límitehoy expuesto al mar de fondo de frente (nivel ciudad)
- ventana
- Get in at first light: before ten the beach is nearly empty, then the water taxis from Vasiliki arrive and the place fills up. Season is June, then September and October, when Eric blows weaker and the water is at its clearest. All of May is shut across Greece, and hunting from sunset to sunrise is banned.
- marea
- The tide decides nothing here, the level moves maybe twenty centimetres. What counts is wind and fresh water: the drop runs steeply from zero to thirty metres, and after heavy rain the gorge behind the beach sends out a cloudy freshwater tongue that hangs at the surface a day or two and kills the view at the entrance.
- abrigo
- The cove is pinned against cliffs in the western corner of Vasiliki Bay: the wall at your back kills the northerly, but the bay itself lies open to south and west. While the boria blows you get glass at the entrance; once the westerly fills in, the wave runs straight into the throat of the cove.
- condiciones
- Only the morning is worth the drive: from about one o'clock a thermal westerly builds across the bay, the windsurfers call it Eric, and by evening you get a hundred sails and a metre of chop. With a settled west or southwest the pebble at the entrance goes up into the water and visibility drops to three metres.
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