Ios, Greece III

Beach hunting is a tough job. Get a scooter, a map - and zip around all day until you find a beach that you have to yourself. Enough time - and you can escape the touristy bimbo-covered beach, and have your own personal sun-tanning area.

The problem however with secluded beaches, is that they are subject to occasional road-blocks.

We had been doing a little too much beach-bumming... so one of the days in Ios, we took an all-day "Adventure Boat Ride". Blasting music in a power boat, the driver took us, and 8 other people to "cave-diving"... (it was more like swimming), where we anchored the boat, and then swam through the caves that had been worn into the rock over the course of thousands of years. After about 25 meters of swimming into the caves, they would connect in the inside, and you could swim out a different cave (if you could fit)!

Next was snorking, where we power-boated to a beach that was only accessible by boat - and swam around in the crystal clear water and watched fish, and tried to avoid sea-urchins. Afterwards was cliff-jumping - where we took a running start, and dove off a cliff. I hit the water pretty hard, and forgot to pinch my nose. As a result, I felt like I had salt water in my brain for a day. Pictured is our Danish friends enjoying their now super-clear sinuses!

Sorry for lacking pictures - water sports are rather unfriendly towards digital cameras, so I kept in safe. Here's our Argentinean friends that we hung out with!