The Islands of the Saronic Gulf

While I was in Greece in June 2005, I visited the islands of Aegina, Poros and Hydra which are located in the Saronic Gulf. Aegina is easily accessible from Athens ... Poros and Hydra are very close to the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Aegina is the largest of the three islands but Hydra is by far the most charming. The waters around Greece are peppered with islands ... over three thousand ... some, like Aegina, have been continually populated since before 1000 BCE and other smaller islands are simply outcroppings of stone that only serve as navigational references and hazards. I have a map of the Greek islands if you would care to see it.