IMPIAN MONALISA-On our travels yesterday, we had passed a placed called Bali on the way to Rethymno. It looked idyllic - beautiful water, a nice looking bay - but we were only passing through; it also looked pretty on the way back in the evening, a glittering jewel against the blackness of the sea. So, this morning when we got up we decided to head westerly once more and make a stop there and then to continue on to Rethymno. Well, we'd hardly given it a chance yesterday really.
Bali beach, Crete, not Indonesia.
The beach was actually a bit of an excuse for a beach - there was very little in the way of sand and with the tide in there was hardly anywhere dry to put your towels and other knick-knacks. No bother - we weren't planning to stay long.
Now, throughout the holiday Manda had tried snorkelling using a cheap mask/snorkel set bought at one of the shops in Chersonisos, and this was followed up by another cheap set of fins. It's true that you get what you pay for, and as such every snorkelling session invariably involved Manda's mask being flooded on regular occasions (or one of the retainer clips pinging off unexpectedly), and sore feet thanks to the poorly made fins. However, now we were both sorted - I had brought my mask, snorkel and fins with me, and bought a second good quality set as a spare for Manda to use, while yesterday we'd added a pair of Mares fins to the kit. Both sorted then! Only problem was that the water had turned really choppy in the last couple of days. Where we'd normally expect to get very clear water, all we got today was a sandy murk. All a bit disappointing given that for the first time we were both well prepared and raring to watch the fish swimming among the rocks. Ah well.
As we got out of the water and stashed away our snorkelling gear, the man looking after the sun loungers wandered in our direction, then paused nearby, trying to look busy with something but very evidently waiting for us to put so much as a towel down on one of the loungers for him to pounce on us. No luck, sorry mate - we're off for some food!
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