Day 44:
- Woke up to announcements. Arrive Ios, cheering Spanish. Stayed in bed, in/out of sleep.
- Watched arrival to Santoniti. See villages on cliffs and switchbacks to ports. Volcano island.
- Can clearly see caldera.
- Missed bus to Fira. See Hostel Anne shuttle. "looks familiar"
- Check Internet on arrival. Find is right place. 6 euros per night but had to cancel reservations.
- Large noisy dorm in basement and smelly bathrooms.
- Rented ATV after license problem.
- Went to red beach, a beach with cliffs, then lighthouse. Cool cliffs to climb around there.
- Porous red and black rocks at red beach. smooth.
- See island in distance.
- On way back bought 10 euro wine, probably ripoff.
- Learn white beach only accessible by boat.
- Went to a flatter beach then decide goto the cliff beach. houses carved in flatter beach.
- Water cold but clear. (see red beach just beside over a bit).
- Swam and into mouth of a cave. Dry off in sun then explored some shallow carved caves near beach (up a bit).
- Ride up the tallest point. See grape vines on ground in volcanic soil. See sunset from mountain. See all of island plus some far away islands. Try wine, sunset, alcoholic, rasins taste, some slime. very tannic.
- see whole island light up. Beautiful in the colours of fading sunlight. See swath of sunlight shooting up after go behind mountains.
- Dave drove back, scared of heights. Almost hit hostel when turning.
- Dave and Andre sleep, I go up and talk a while, but no chairs, so go to sleep.
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