Anchored behind the harbour break wall off the town. The Coast Guard moved us from our first anchor spot as we were within the 300 meter no anchor zone, very friendly no probelms. Small town with Conrad supermarket and bakery for supplies, fuel at dock in marina.
31/08/11 - Marina Di Palma: North 37*10'025 East 013*43'421
Our first choice of an anchorage at Licata wasn't possible as a large marina has been built in it's place! Wanting to avoid paying summer rates in the marina so we moved on down the coast to the small fishing town of Marina Di Palma and anchored 300 meters off the small harbour. An open road stead anchorage so not much protection but it was calm the night we stayed there, we didn't go ashore and left early the following morning.
01/09/11 - Porto Empedocle: North 37*17'036 East 013*31'543
Yachts can anchor on the western side of the inner breakwall, no room to tie up in the harbour as far as we could see. The anchorage was very comfortable, the town is small but interesting to explore and has good provisions at Carrefour mini market. From here we caught the bus to the Valley of the Temples near the city of Agrigento, well worth a visit. The bus leaves regularly from the east side of the port and takes roughly 20 minutes to get to the temples.
04/09/11 - Mazara Del Vallo: North 37*38'744 East 012*35'330
Again just another over night stop off what looks to be quite a big city. We anchored off the Eastern side of the inner break wall gaining what little protection we could from the larger outer western break wall. The swell from the south east made for a rolly night and the bottom is thick with sea grass so not the best anchorage but fine for an overnight stop. There is a marina which would be advisable if wanting to spend more time and fuel is available from the dock.
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