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Another day, another island. ^_^
Yesterday we took a glass-bottomed boat around the caldera, visiting first the two volcanic islands in the centre. The first one is what I imagine Mars would look like with a little extra vegetation. There's no shade at all but the walk to the top isn't that long, so it wasn't too bad. The second island we didn't visit per se; rather, the boat docked a little ways off and we were invited to swim to the hot spring, which is actually in a little cove. It's not all that hot, (lukewarm, really) but it was fun, though A-L's attempts to start a mud-fight were unsuccessful.
The third island was Thirissa (Little Thira), where we had fresh squid and octopus fresh off the grill. G and I climbed the 150 stairs to the village on top of the cliff, just in time to climb back down again to catch our boat.
The glass bottom of the boat was pretty neat because when we were close to shore, the water was bright green, then it changed from aquamarine to deep turquoise as we moved to deeper waters. We also saw part of the reef, with lots of little fishies.
When we got back to our hotel, we took showers to wash off the leftover mud from the hot springs then went back out to wander around town for a while. We were just in time for the lovely sunset over the outlying island and then we found food.
Today we took the Flying Cat 4 (sleeker than most cats I know!) to Paros. The hydrofoil is quite like a plane in that you have assigned seats and can't go outside, but it's a very fast way to travel; we docked at Paros less than two hours later. We rented an apartment for two days from Philip, who met us at the port. He seems nicer than our creepy Rethymno guy, and his wife offered us tea.
This afternoon we ate (again?!) and visited the old church, which was pretty cool. It's actually 3 churches that sort of grew together. After that, we lounged around on the beach, and now we are here.
Yesterday we took a glass-bottomed boat around the caldera, visiting first the two volcanic islands in the centre. The first one is what I imagine Mars would look like with a little extra vegetation. There's no shade at all but the walk to the top isn't that long, so it wasn't too bad. The second island we didn't visit per se; rather, the boat docked a little ways off and we were invited to swim to the hot spring, which is actually in a little cove. It's not all that hot, (lukewarm, really) but it was fun, though A-L's attempts to start a mud-fight were unsuccessful.
The third island was Thirissa (Little Thira), where we had fresh squid and octopus fresh off the grill. G and I climbed the 150 stairs to the village on top of the cliff, just in time to climb back down again to catch our boat.
The glass bottom of the boat was pretty neat because when we were close to shore, the water was bright green, then it changed from aquamarine to deep turquoise as we moved to deeper waters. We also saw part of the reef, with lots of little fishies.
When we got back to our hotel, we took showers to wash off the leftover mud from the hot springs then went back out to wander around town for a while. We were just in time for the lovely sunset over the outlying island and then we found food.
Today we took the Flying Cat 4 (sleeker than most cats I know!) to Paros. The hydrofoil is quite like a plane in that you have assigned seats and can't go outside, but it's a very fast way to travel; we docked at Paros less than two hours later. We rented an apartment for two days from Philip, who met us at the port. He seems nicer than our creepy Rethymno guy, and his wife offered us tea.
This afternoon we ate (again?!) and visited the old church, which was pretty cool. It's actually 3 churches that sort of grew together. After that, we lounged around on the beach, and now we are here.
