After our morning swimming pool time, we drove down to the Latchi harbour and hired a 70hp powerboat from the Latchi Watersports Centre named "Life of Riley".
The very helpful twins Lucy and Emma, from North London themselves and in Latchi for a working holiday for 3 years in a row during their summer holidays, guided us through the whole process of detailing on a map all the viewpoints of the North side of the Akamas peninsula, where we could drive or stop for a break.
George from Northern Ireland (it's a small world, again), showed the Captain of our boat aka DH all the intricacies of driving the boat and off we went with our life jackets on and our coolbox packed with water and juice, our swimming costumes ready in our backpacks. We were safely guided out of the packed harbour.
The thrill of driving a speedboat over the choppy waters of the Mediterranean was exhilarating. We had been advised to keep a safe distance of about 200m from the shoreline, but to avoid any risks we misjudged the distance to be 1km. And, hence we missed all the viewpoints we were supposed to look out for - Aphrodite Rocks, St George's Island, Amphitheatre Bay and lastly The Blue Lagoon. We ended up anchored at the edge of the penisula.
How did we get to know? Well, my DH checked the GPS on his iPhone (apparently 3G mobile network in the Mediterranean around the island was very good, even better than VHF radio signal on the boat!) Life without GPS seems impossible to us! Well, we still tried to swim in the blue waves, so clear that you could see the sandy bottom. The current in the waves was so strong that, BigBro was floating away from the boat & needed to be dragged back, then we found that the anchor was moving away from the shore. Next, we turned the boat around and started to head back. We stopped at Manolis Bay for a quick break. We reached the Latchi harbour with the sun setting behind the clouds, an afternoon well spent in the sea breeze, you could taste the salt on your fingertips or on our kids' cheeks.
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| Life of Riley |
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| Navigation map along the Akamas |
George from Northern Ireland (it's a small world, again), showed the Captain of our boat aka DH all the intricacies of driving the boat and off we went with our life jackets on and our coolbox packed with water and juice, our swimming costumes ready in our backpacks. We were safely guided out of the packed harbour.
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| Fishing boat @ Fontana Amrosa |
The thrill of driving a speedboat over the choppy waters of the Mediterranean was exhilarating. We had been advised to keep a safe distance of about 200m from the shoreline, but to avoid any risks we misjudged the distance to be 1km. And, hence we missed all the viewpoints we were supposed to look out for - Aphrodite Rocks, St George's Island, Amphitheatre Bay and lastly The Blue Lagoon. We ended up anchored at the edge of the penisula.
How did we get to know? Well, my DH checked the GPS on his iPhone (apparently 3G mobile network in the Mediterranean around the island was very good, even better than VHF radio signal on the boat!) Life without GPS seems impossible to us! Well, we still tried to swim in the blue waves, so clear that you could see the sandy bottom. The current in the waves was so strong that, BigBro was floating away from the boat & needed to be dragged back, then we found that the anchor was moving away from the shore. Next, we turned the boat around and started to head back. We stopped at Manolis Bay for a quick break. We reached the Latchi harbour with the sun setting behind the clouds, an afternoon well spent in the sea breeze, you could taste the salt on your fingertips or on our kids' cheeks.
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| Latchi Bay |
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