- Loutro to Chora Sfakion coastal path
Thursday saw the whole group take the ferry to Loutro where again the groups reformed and started walking the coastal path back to Chora Sfakion. The objective this time was to observe and investigate evidence of more recent geomorpholgical processes than the single seismic event that caused the great uplift to the western end of Crete in the late Roman period.
The groups walked at their own pace and now in a more practiced way were marking waypoints on their hand held GPS at observation points and photograph locations. This would make it easier to visualize when they later uploaded the GPS to their group dell mini 9 notebooks that had been issued back in the UK.
A lunch time stop was made at Sweetwater Beach (Glynkera) where the students swam, had lunch and another brief update from Alan. A group of students were closely observed by a nudist to see if they noted information about a relatively new land slip that he had given them when fully clothed the previous evening. The group however marched past eyes averted, probably because the area was where the nature lovers were in abundance.
The afternoon saw the trek over the large debris cone and the cliff climb going through the well photographed overhang. The coastal path then meandered round the cliff face climbing at times quite steeply to eventually reach the road that goes back to Chora Sfakion via the mouth of Illingas gorge.
