It's been a busy week sailing towards Santorini, or sometimes called Thira. We stopped at a couple islands on the way, 50 miles from Patmos we went to Amorgos, a very quaint, clean island. We loved it!
Before that, we stopped in a little island of Arki, just a fishing village with 2 restaurants on the water. We were there with only 2 other boats, one group from Germany, and a couple from Scotland. It was a quick stop but we managed to foul our anchor. Pretty funny, we've been in some super crowded anchorages without a problem and with 3 boats in this bay, the couple from Scotland accidentally laid their anchor over ours. So when we pulled up our anchor we pulled their anchor as well. The irony.....(well, steel......sorry)
Anyway, we're in Santorini now, it's unbelievable. It it supposed to be where many scholars think the legend of Atlantis came from. Around 2000 BC, an enormous volcano erupted, tuning a huge island into a ring with sea in the middle. It even desecrated all the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, 70 miles away. The strange thing is, they have discovered elaborate dwellings and evidence of an advanced civilization, but no skeletons or human remains. So, the thinking is the people here knew the volcano was about to erupt?! Puzzling.
Now it's some of the most spectacular cliffs and cities literally clinging to the hill tops. Some astounding views and vistas and your mind can not conceive of an explosion taking away the center of the island as you look out across the bay. Breathtaking. The pictures we took don't do it justice, but with some imagination you can feel the sea breezes from up there and try and envision it.
We'll try and get some more up this week.
From the ring of fire,
~ Hems
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