The best swimming yet
Today we went back to our secret cove but, for the first time since we left Santorini all those days ago, the wind wasn’t blowing, and the sea was calm. We set up “camp” in the same spot as yesterday and then soon took to the waters, which were still, and so clear.
Yesterday it had felt safe swimming in our little cove as it provided shelter from the breakers, today I was happy to swim out further and deeper and explore what lay to the left and right of our little slice of heaven. Rounding the the “headland” at the top of our cove, I didn’t find another lovely beach, but instead a sea cave going under the cliff face. With the sea calm, I felt emboldened to go in an explore – the cave was, perhaps, 5 metres from the front to the back, and the water about waist high. The light in a sea cave has to be seen to be believed, and it is very different looking into the cave, as from the cave looking out.
But it wasn’t just exploring the cave that was fun, the swimming – in deep (by deep I mean at least out of my depth) clear water, some ten or fifteen metres from the shore was delicious. The best swimming of our trip so far.
And talking of delicious, this evening we returned to the garden taverna we dinned in a few nights ago, enjoying the food, and probably the prettiest setting we have eaten in all trip.
