Back on Milos...and back to driving the van and trailer for me today so Dirk gets a little exercise! I am lucky to be able to share the first part of the paddle as we back track to Pappafraggi - some very cool and explorable caves where pirate ships of course had 3 boat garages for hiding and offloading all their loot!! Some of these inlets/caves actually have no roof anymore and are more of a sheltered bay for snorkellers and swimmers...
Zoe Dirk and Noah cliff jumped to their hearts' content from various locations including a synchronized jump complete with screams as well as jumping from a stone arch above the water... from there we paddled across to Glaronissia island to circimnavigate it and get a closer look at it's incredible geological rock formations - like a pile of french fries - long slabs of potato rocks.... from there I left the group and paddled back to the van and trailer waiting lonely by the beach....
I had planned to meet the others at Firopotamos, a small fishing village in a sheltered bay. The roads were easy to drive compared to Kimolos! No backing for me!!Lots of switchbacks as I wove down through a valley hoping I wouldn't shoot past the road to the beach...et voila! there it was and talk about perfect timing - I pulled in at the same time as the gang arrived by sea...and we spent lunch grooving out to euro house music belting out from the little snack bar caravan sipping on freddocinos,...devouring a sandwich or two...from a lounge chair in the shade or swinging giddily in a hammock.
After lunch, after helping launch the boats...Dan and I(he had decided to abandon ship for the afternoon to stretch out and untangle his legs of his 6'7'frame)wove our way back into town running a few errands...trying to be there to welcome the "soon to be" arrival of the others at Klima(the locale of our first dinner at Panorama restaurant)We did not quite make it as these fast growing in experience paddlers whipped around the northern point of the island and made short work on their run in towards Adamas to come to rest in the colorful boat house cove of Klima.
Tonight was a free night in town for everyone with options to eat on their own without us guides!! We wandered around the Plakias for a little shopping( I BOUGHT SOME POSTCARDS!) and dined on the waterfront back down in Adamas soaking in the atmosphere of this little Greek isle village life for tomorrow we were off to the remote and rugged and mostly uninhabited Western side of the island.
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