Boat tour or Ortigia and caves

The usual morning walk with a stop at the market. We picked up vegetables to add to the leftover chicken for a curry for supper. Also picked up a load of bread as they often don't last more than 1 day.

A little bit chillier and cloudy this morning.

Wendy put on her jacket this morning

One of the nice hotels on the island, over 200 bucks a night

Electric bus that serves the island

Lots of seaweed in the nets

Some type of lobster

Love the reflections in the morning

Cheese display at the market

Cherry tomatoes are cheap

Swordfish is not cheap 30 euro a kilo

Salted Anchovies

Only 2 glass display showcases at the market. This is one of them

Outside our apartment, could be a long day

Lunch time cruise.  Taking the boat tour around the Island and to the Caves has been on our agenda since we have been here.  We are quickly running out of time, and it is dependent on wind and sun when we go.  Since it is a pretty nice day and not overly windy, and Wendy has no appointments scheduled right after lunch we decide today is the day.  There are vendors all over this island trying to get you to go with them, but one young man has been nice to us since day 1, says hello every day, so I think we may have shocked him today when we said we wanted to go.  Wendy was a little afraid how rough it would be, but the tour does not go far from shore.  We are the only 2 on our boat tour, a private boat tour for 20 Euro each, which lasted 1 hour.  Our captain was a kid, 19 he told us, but it is the 3rd year he has been doing the tours and this is the first year he is allowed to pass under the bridges.  We asked him how many he takes on the boat when it is busy, he said 16, but if the coast guard is around it is 14.  Very funny, a nice guy that spoke pretty good English.  We were only able to go into the biggest cave, but it is still not very big, he surprised us when he turned the boat around inside the cave, he has definitely done this before.

the harbor in town

I hope this is not like the Titanic, she says

The sunset lookout and the spring

The castle at the end of the island

Church we walk by every day at least once

Guide said it looks like a tuna

On a calm day you can enter this small cave

Same here

Cave shaped like a heart

Into the cave we go

Inside the cave

Used to look like an elephant but parts broke off. Now you can imagine what you want. A gorilla, a lion ????

The cave we went into

War memorail

The island

Used to be the jail

Used to be the Post Office but is now the fanciest hotel on the island

We squeezed under the bridge with about 4 inches to spare, had to duck our heads

Can take 14 but we were the only 2

Our 19 year old Captain waving bye

new in town, big $$$, this would be fun to go on a tour on

A nice walk before supper. We were planning on doing one before and one after but ended up doing an extra long one instead. We HAD to take a break for a gelato of course. Wendy had a granita which is similar for a sorbet but more granular. Wendy choose Lemon as her flavour.

Always net mending to be done

Many barrels like this for the big boats

Larger boat tour boat, they definitely do not go under the bridge

Great sun beams tonight

Making progress.

1691 on the house, Wow

Fishing net close to shore near our apartment

Made the chicken curry for supper. Enjoyed a bottle of rose wine with it. It went well together.

Talked to Nancy on Facebook, got all her updates on her and Rons trip so far as they got to Florence on Tuesday, and will be joining us in Sicily a week from tomorrow.