Pigadia: The sea front and east harbour
The capital of the island, Pigadia is also the main port. Not that it’s a large place – the total population of the whole of Karpathos is only around 6000.
Pigadia sits at the south end of a long beach which gets sandier the further you go from town.
Heading out in the opposite direction, there’s the Cave of Poseidon, about a mile from the harbour and accessible only by sea.
The town itself has the ruins of the original settlement, Potideon, and a small museum. And of course there are all the shops and service you would expect in a small town.
There’s nothing wrong with Pigadia, and if you’d never been to another Greek island you’d love it. But for a yachtsman there’s nothing much here that you couldn’t find more accessibly elsewhere. Except of course, being one of the more outlying Dodecanese islands, you may want to visit if only because not many others do.