Ship’s Blog Day 3

The Kambosos family raises sheep and goats on a four square mile island with miles of stone walls to keep the sheep in pasture and the goats running freely.  In summer the population swells to ten because the grandchildren are home from school in Patmos.

Levitha is rocky and bare

And forty kilometers from anywhere

But since 1820

The Kambosos family

Have been the only inhabitants there.

The inlet to the harbor is almost invisible, and the harbor is so deep and rocky that it is very difficult to anchor.  The Kambosos’s installed moorings for visiting yachts.   On a small outdoor terrace they serve dinners of fish, lamb or goat.

Miles from their nearest neighbor

With a deep and protected harbor 

They built a small restaurant

For visitors who want

To eat and to venture ashore.