Tons of pics HERE
8:30pm: at the hotel after a long, tiring, great day. Had a light breakfast at the hotel, gave our laundry to the owner, and made the quick walk to town to get on our boat Oneiro for our day excursion around the island. We left just before 9 and there were about 17 people on the boat plus the awesome captain Elias and his equally awesome cook Vasilias. They started out by telling us we are very lucky because the winds are calm, which allowed us to do both the west and south side of the island - usually they can only do one. They started out by serving some light snacks and pointing out things were seeing along the way - fishing villages, rock formations, etc. as well as giving us some historical information.
We stopped at a few places to swim nanely some caves wher they also took us inside the caves in a tiny boat. The water here is SO clear and blue/aqua and gorgeous that it’s almost unfair! This routine with food and drink and gorgeous swimming stops basically condtinued all day, all with their great banter and stories throw in. Considering the hard work they do and the fact that they only really work six months of the year, it is impressive how much they care. Almost everything they served they grew - including melons, tomatoes, etc. Such an impressive day and people and the island is just beautiful. Take a look at the pictures when flickr decides to cooperate, but they don’t really do it justice either.
We finished up around 5:30 in a southern beach resort. They had a bus waiting to take us back to Adamas. We decided on a quick pizza at the port since were both still feeling the sea legs thing, then had some ice cream and walked back to the room. Luckily our clean laundry was waiting for us inside the room. We decided to take a rest here outside and the owner bought us some melon. She is hospitable in an almost overbearing kind of way!
Tomorrow it is one last boat ride to Athens when we pick up a car for the week to explore mainland Peloponnese!
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