Favignana I

One day our B+B host recommended we go to the island of Favignana off of Trapani. We took a ferry, and spent the day beach hopping. From the harbor... we spent an hour trying to figure out the bus station - it's tradition in Sicily to make the "bus huts"... but then provide no other information such as schedule or the word bus. After some confusion, the first beach we went to, known as Cala Monaci only had a small strip of sand - not sufficient for sun-bathing, so we moved on.

We couldn't decide on the best beach to stay on so we just wandered around. The strong sun and lots of rocks makes the perfect climate for lizards, so that kept Renee distracted.

We stopped for a while at a "beach" called Cala Rossa. This part of the island used to be a quarry, where they removed stone from the ground to build all the houses.

We did some cave-exploring and enjoyed the shade.

Here we are stepping deeper into the caves that were made when they still excavated the stone. It had an eerie feel to walk into these giant man-made caverns. From the cliff that overhangs the ocean, these caverns are dug inwards... so that you can only see them if you are on the ocean, or right on top of them. We couldn't tell how far these caverns went, so we walked as far as the sun light spilling in would allow us.