dinameet

We went to the fabulous and impressive Grande Grotta today

where there are some new routes to the right of the cave, as well as a lot of extensions to existing lines. I did "Elefantenhimmel" on sight, which I was very happy about. Its a fun climb up huge tufas with a fun and potentially heartbreaking last move. We headed back down to the apartment and scootered (We rented mildly overpowered 80 cc Piaggio NRG scooters from Lakis for 8 euro/day) towards Pothia. About 1 km out of the port we began to hear low booms. These weren't the higher pitched reports of fancy chinese fireworks; this was mining ordinance exploding. We continued in to town and parked. Pothia is flanked by cliffs from which the throwers had gathered.

the little specks on the hills are people. A huge crowd had gathered in the port

and the light in the harbor was beautiful

I took a little video of people throwing dinameet off of the other cliff band. It is 1.4 MB and you will need some .mp4 capable plugin to view it here
We fled the harbor after getting headaches and ate dinner at a restaurant in Myrties which turned out to be our favorite. We had the fresh fish in their "special sauce".