Triton Marine Tours - Corfu

[IHEARTSUP14]

Has anyone booked/used Triton Marine Tours in Paleokastritsa??  We are thinking of using their boat tour of the caves and beaches and by not using the cruise company I am a bit nervous. 

 

Any help and information would be greatly appreciated!

[pdmlynek]

There are 10 to 20 different boat rental outfits at Paleokastritsa.  I tried to make reservations several weeks ahead for our stop 2 weeks ago, none seemed to be too busy, but each wanted a deposit.  In the end, I just rented two boats (one center console, one side console) from some outfit on the beach.

 

Boat rental was very easy and painless. I've never driven a boat, neither have any of the other people in our party, so the rental place took a few minutes to teach us how to operate them, before letting us go onto the sea.  For boats under 30 horsepower, no boating license needed.

 

The outfit that we used (Skiclub105) had some maps, but it did not have the sea caves on the maps.  This is unsurprising, since boat rental places do not want to have neophytes driving their boats into caves.  There are about 17 beaches in the area, and about twice as many sea caves.  I brought my own navigation chart of the area, onto which I annotated the various sea caves that we should see.

 

The boat rental place required us to get no closer than 40 meters from any sea cave or beach, so we anchored about boats, and just swam to the caves and the beaches.

 

There are many beaches close to Paleokastritsa, so there is no need to boat too far.  We had only 3 hrs, so we visited only a few beaches, including Chomi beach and Limni beach.  The furthest that we went was the island of Vrachonisida Kolyviri, a small island about a km off the shore, about 5 km south of Paleokastritsa.