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Eat-drink-read-sleep-swim. Repeat.
... if he was protecting us. But as soon as we started to settle in, he got protective of his beach instead. He barked at us for spreading out our towels and then barked whenever I picked up a rock. This turned into nonstop barking, so we decided to abandon this spot. We walked back to the sidewalk and went further up the beach. Ends up the doggie was doing us a favor: after 5 minutes of walking we found something called "Coral Beach": a refreshment stand and bar with ...
Pyrotechnics!
... down the mountainside like an old pro. So much for my hope that she’d keep the pace slow! Eventually we reached the vegetation line, and were surrounded by very tall bamboo-like grasses. (I later found out this is “broom”.) The sensation of skiing gave way to the sense that we were hiking down very steep beach dunes. After a while the ground got slightly more solid, the path became winding, and the broom grew even taller; now ...
Close Encounters of the Volcanic Kind
... a high concentration of bizarre floaties in the water; I’m still trying to figure out what they were. When floating they looked like tiny feathers, but when you pulled them out of the water they were squishy. Best we could come up with as a guess was that it is fragments of the mud brought in by mud bathers. After we had our fill of the natural springs we headed to the showers. We had lingered long enough at each stop that both the German and ...
Saints, Soccer, and Sweets
... well as elsewhere in the islands. The history of these islands spans over 6000; a cross-sectioned and labeled excavation shows that castle rock has been habited since the middle Neolithic; during those times the island’s obsidian was the currency of the day. The museum buildings were all closed for siesta, but we were able to wander the grounds, including a walk among ancient Greek sarcophagi accompanied by a very friendly grey gatto. Castle rock also provides great views; ...
The most active volcano in the world
The island is superb with black volcano sand beaches, the most active volcano in the world, fishing boats perched at the water's edge and a small population of 400 people.
Lots of history here and my guide advised that most of the people left in the 1950's when a butterfly pest came to the island destroyed most ...
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