Ball

[OldBawley]

Winter, beautiful weather, I was dingy sailing.
Since a few days I spotted a big monk seal in the vicinity of my anchored boat, heard first and then saw the seal surfacing near the beach of a small cove. Second inlet west of the ruin of Russian bay, Poros Greece.
I sailed over to have a look, beached the dingy a took a stroll on the small beach. Searching for trails, because these animals have to sleep somewhere.
Sea level low ( high pressure ) and there I find a metal ball sticking half out of the soft limestone rock. Just on sea level. A bit of picking with my knife and I had a perfect round iron ball.
About 145 mm diameter, could be a bit more.
Just read a book by Patric O`Brian, so cannon ball. 5,7”
Or could it be something else ?

Could use it as a riding weight for the anchor chain. A bit of heavy fishing net and some splicing and there I have a very original riding weight.

 

[pelissima]

The lone silent pictures you sketched keep coming back.
Thx for sharing

 

[Yngmar]

Old naval mine. Do not shake before use

 

[OldBawley]

The ball is so heavy he has to be solid.

Just a days sail from here is a small uninhabited island where a fisherman dumped some unexploded munition from WW2. He must have had the stuff in his nets. Just lies there in the rocks.
On the same island are some parts of a Stuka German bomber as well.
Apparently the Stuka did a crash landing on the only flat piece of earth of the island, then the pilot forced a farmer to take him to the mainland by caique. Germans came over, removed radio and cannon, then left the plane for the farmers. An oil cooler and some very distinctive Stuka fuselage is still there.
Must have been a lot of war in these parts of Greece.

@Pelissima : Yes, I mean the island where we met.

 

[Baggy]

I think you should re-name to Oldcannonbawley

Have you Read Captains Corellis Madolin
good insight what happened during the war
( I know,I know... everyone and their aunt has read it )

 

[OldBawley]

Read it at least 5 times, every time some bloody dust in my eye.
Film is less, still good.
The British spy parachuted down dressed as a palace guard with pompom shoes is the max.

 

[Baggy]

Its been ages since I read it ( mid Atlantic so only fishes known if my bottom lip quivered )

I could not say Lemon for a while, without getting a lump in my throat ahem...

 

[jimbaerselman]

Must have been a lot of war in these parts of Greece.

And in the Cyclades too . . .

Major Hill was my sister's father in law. He kept a pictorial diary of his war - '44 and 45 being in Greece. I revisited many of the places he recalled. There's a museum in Syros - at the top of Ermoupolis - recording some of the occupation. Here's his take on Syros:

 

[OldBawley]

Mind, having seen “ Eleni “ I believe the Greek partisans during and after the war ware far worse than the Germans.

 

[vyv_cox]

And in the Cyclades too . . .

Major Hill was my sister's father in law. He kept a pictorial diary of his war - '44 and 45 being in Greece. I revisited many of the places he recalled. There's a museum in Syros - at the top of Ermoupolis - recording some of the occupation. Here's his take on Syros:

Dodecanese also. A British destroyer and Greek battleship were sunk in Lakki Bay, Leros. There are two WW2 museums on the island, both worth visiting.

 

[OldBawley]

I visited the now deserted island Alimia a few times. Inside the buildings of the German navy base and in some houses in the village are wall painting and drawings of high standard.
Made by some German from the Schwartzwald. Is is clear that those German occupiers had no food either. I read German and it is written on the walls they ware eating rats