- Ken inspects mouth of the Illingas gorge
Saturday was what Ken would call from his army days a make and mend day. A few of the students looked like they were on the mend from what appeared to have been high jinks the previous evening, probably started by the friendly local eating establishments habit of giving out the local drink of ‘raki’ at bill presentation time.
Ken had taken the opportunity of diving off the beach at the mouth of Illingas gorge. He took some photographs of large boulders that looked like they could have been deposited by previous floods and there were large branches and parts of trees that had been pinned down by rocks and were now lying on the bottom waterlogged. At the bottom of the cliff wall to the west of the gorge there were fresh water underground springs.
Ken returned to the hotel and at lunch time and met up with Alan and Richard who had done separate exploratory sightseeing tours in the local area. Richard having been particularly moved by a memorial to Cretan resistance fighters which consisted of their skulls. Alan had climbed a local peak for a photo opportunity, which also probably allowed him to check out his agility after his previous days stumble.
