Images: More Horsepower!!!; Beach at Sarakiniko
Yesterday we went to the beautiful beach at Sarakiniko, one of the most famous beaches on Milos. There are no beach chairs or tavernas, and there were only about a dozen other people there when we climbed the long, rocky trail down through a moonscape, covered with snow-white rock formations. There is a small sea passage that lets the azure waters through to a small beach. We swam out the passage to the sea.
Our discoveries today included the beautiful beach of Paliochori, and that 100 CC's just ain't enough.
Milos is renowned for being a spectacular geo-park and one of the most important geothermal fields in the world. Today we travelled to the beach at Paliochori where a group of students had landed and were studying the thermal soils at the beach.
A prod, something like a long knitting needle, was being stuck into the sand below the waterline and the temperatures were being recorded. One report was 67 degrees C. The temperatures in the summertime can climb to 100 C, about a foot below the surface!
The beach was beautiful, there was a quaint tavena where we enjoyed a salad and fish overlooking the beach.
Returning back to our hotel, our little bike developed a bit of a hesitation, so I took it in and traded up to a 150 CC. What a difference!! The bends in the roads here are so sharp and the hills are so steep that our little 100CC laboured up them at about 10km/hr. The 150 takes them as fast as we dare to go. A 25 minute trip now takes us about 10 minutes..
Therer are three things in life you can never have enough of, and horsepower is one of them – right, Brian??
Yesterday we went to the beautiful beach at Sarakiniko, one of the most famous beaches on Milos. There are no beach chairs or tavernas, and there were only about a dozen other people there when we climbed the long, rocky trail down through a moonscape, covered with snow-white rock formations. There is a small sea passage that lets the azure waters through to a small beach. We swam out the passage to the sea.
Our discoveries today included the beautiful beach of Paliochori, and that 100 CC's just ain't enough.
Milos is renowned for being a spectacular geo-park and one of the most important geothermal fields in the world. Today we travelled to the beach at Paliochori where a group of students had landed and were studying the thermal soils at the beach.
A prod, something like a long knitting needle, was being stuck into the sand below the waterline and the temperatures were being recorded. One report was 67 degrees C. The temperatures in the summertime can climb to 100 C, about a foot below the surface!
The beach was beautiful, there was a quaint tavena where we enjoyed a salad and fish overlooking the beach.
Returning back to our hotel, our little bike developed a bit of a hesitation, so I took it in and traded up to a 150 CC. What a difference!! The bends in the roads here are so sharp and the hills are so steep that our little 100CC laboured up them at about 10km/hr. The 150 takes them as fast as we dare to go. A 25 minute trip now takes us about 10 minutes..
Therer are three things in life you can never have enough of, and horsepower is one of them – right, Brian??
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