On our first day to stave off jet lag thought to take a challenge and walk up to the monastery and church St Antonios at the top of the extinct volcano behind Piso Livadi. Didn’t look that big for us experienced Camino walkers. Headed to town for an explore and a coffee.
Refreshed with a dose of good coffee and second breakfast decided to check out the town and found an empty beach that’s not really overlooked by houses and it had really warmed up. Soooo, we found a cliff to shelter under, stripped off and plunged into the crisp Mediterranean. Beautiful clear ocean with no sharks, stingers, blue bottles or waves. Perfect. I swam out deep enjoying the lack of current or rips. Then along the cliff top came a scooter but it passed without even noticing two pale middle aged naked swimmers. Just starting to get cold and a car pulled up and a guy in a uniform got out. The back of his shirt said Security. OMG I thought someone has complained. He proceeds to fiddle around in the car, meanwhile we both have the giggles and getting colder. Eventually he makes his way down to the beach carrying a wetsuit, spear gun, fins, float and other equipment. Strips off to his shorts and with painful slowness gears up. We are stuck in the water getting numb with cold and pretending to enjoy ourselves waiting for him to enter the water. Finally with his head under the water we scuttled out of the sea to our shelter to dry off. We’d neglected to pack towels either. So had wait till the sun half dried us so our clothes weren’t soaked too.
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May 2019
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