The island is to be reached
only by boat. As an anchorage the north part of the island is
recommended.
The island Saint
Andrea is
a lagoon-island in the North Adriatic.
With
her neighbour island Porto Buso it forms one, in all weather
conditions, safe
entrance in the lagoon and further to the river Corno up to San Gorgio
used by
big freighters from all over the world. Or the idyllic river Aussa
navigable,
for smaller boats, up to Cervignano.
This Aussa once was
the border
river between Austria
and Italy.
On the island
Porto Buso the Austrians had a duty station, on Saint Andrea the
Italians.
There is a story; we only can hope this story is not true:
The occupying crews
of both islands were not really minded hostilely, over a long time they
nightly
visited the other ones, drinking and playing cards together. One day,
some important
“gentlemen” meant, it is necessary, once again, to proclaim the war
between the
two countries. Two Austrians rowed in the evening of the 23rd May 1915 once again for a card game to Saint
Andrea, they knew nothing about the
outbreak of the war. On the other side
there waited not the well known Financieri, there were soldiers
waiting. And
these both Austrians became the first dead people in this new south
front.
Every time, if we went
between the islands we memory this story… …
During
later years a monastery was
established on
Saint Andrea, on Porto Buso a pub. The pub is even there today, the monastery now is in private property. It is permitted
to enter
the beach . The inside of the island (it is marked) is private property
and a protected area, this should
be absolutely respected!!!
Initially
Cache contained
Car
Bee
Shackle
Snap hook
Flag C
Pencil and logbook
Small note on cache maintenance: We are here twice a month in the summer and about once a month in winter, so cache maintenance should not be a problem.