PART OF A DAY IN PARADISE

We spent part of today in Paradise; Tropicana Club at Paradise Beach, that is. Paradise Beach is the closest to our villa where snorkling gear can be rented, so we drove there in the late morning. Eric ended up buying some inexpensive gear for him and the kids because the rental would have been more expensive, and we decided that the beach wasn't too crowded yet. So we rented lounge chairs and umbrellas (permanently placed thatch umbrellas at the perfect height to gouge your eyes out if you walked into one) and set up camp for the afternoon.

After a couple of hours, the soft jazz on the club speakers was replaced with the boomba- boomba-boom rythmic music that teens and twenty-somethings seem to respond to, and the party gradually started. Paradise Beach is The Party Beach on Mykonos, and we decided not to stick around for the fun. We left just before our brains had been turned to oatmeal by the music, and returned to the serenity and isolation of Villa Cleo.

Eric, the kids and I went snorkeling a couple of times at Paradise. My experiences snorkeling in popular areas of Greece are that it is not very colorful, and is greatly impacted by people. But, I always feel at home in the water with my snorkeling gear on, and enjoy being once again with my fish relatives.

We had a good time in the water. Here are a few images:




The underwater landscape, with Neptune grass in the foreground and numerous Chromis fish in the wayer column. There are some low rocky reefs interspersed with the extensive sand flats.




Sophie, Eric and Max.




Max collecting a sample at about 15ft depth for the Museum of Sand.




A school of ?? fish.


The edge of the rock reef.


An urchin and numerous anemones.



- posted from the fisheyepad