Sea kayaking off the Lassi coast
Day Five – Saturday 15 July
Sea kayaking with Monte Nero Activities (5*). What a fantastic day. Tom and I give this five stars. Fantastic from start to finish. We met our guides at the Argostoli lighthouse at 09:00 to kit up and prepare for the six-hour sea journey down the coast, past Lassi to the beach at Ag Nikolaou.
There were 10 of use. A Swiss family of three and five Australian pals having a reunion tour of Europe. The first hour and a half was spent weaving in and out of grottos, caves, arches and other coastal features.
We came across remote beaches and stretches of limestone cliffs dropping vertically into the sea. The briefing was detailed. They took us through everything saying “five minutes learning this on the shore is worth an hour in the water.”
Tom and I were often in the lead, having done kayaking before, but kayaking on the sea is much different as you have to make allowance for the sea and the swell. Our guides were on the look-out for changes to the surface of the water which would have indicated an increase in the wind. There was only one choppy bit, which Pavlos reckoned was a force two.
They say they will keep going in force four if those on the trip are up to it. The trip included one swim stop on a remote beach and a lunch stop on another beach that was fantastically clean. The tour guides brought flippers and snorkling gear so that we could go out and see the fish.
They also brought lunch. A very healthy spread of break, cheese, salad, meat and fruit. This was one of the best tours we have ever done and it ended on a beach just past the airport which has a bar. After helping the team pack the boats we enjoyed a beer and a can of diet coke in the bar with all who had taken part.
Excellent. I’d recommend the team from Monte Nero Activities. Their website is www.monte-nero-activities.com/.
We got back to the apartment at 17:30 for showers and two episodes of the podcast while I edited the photos and wrote the diary. As I write, I notice that Tom is asleep. Bless him; he has done so well today. He is a star. I’ll wake him so he can have a shower and we can go into Lassi for dinner. Probably at the Phaedra – call us boring, but it is so good it doesn’t make sense to try anywhere else.
We went down to the village and wandered around a bit and bought Mike his Barcelona footy shirt. We looked at several restaurants but ended up at Phaedra again. Tom had swordfish, which he didn’t really like, and I had chicken kebab, so I swapped with Tom and he enjoyed the kebab which I thought the swordfish was brill.
Sea kayaking with Monte Nero Activities (5*). What a fantastic day. Tom and I give this five stars. Fantastic from start to finish. We met our guides at the Argostoli lighthouse at 09:00 to kit up and prepare for the six-hour sea journey down the coast, past Lassi to the beach at Ag Nikolaou.
There were 10 of use. A Swiss family of three and five Australian pals having a reunion tour of Europe. The first hour and a half was spent weaving in and out of grottos, caves, arches and other coastal features.
We came across remote beaches and stretches of limestone cliffs dropping vertically into the sea. The briefing was detailed. They took us through everything saying “five minutes learning this on the shore is worth an hour in the water.”
Tom and I were often in the lead, having done kayaking before, but kayaking on the sea is much different as you have to make allowance for the sea and the swell. Our guides were on the look-out for changes to the surface of the water which would have indicated an increase in the wind. There was only one choppy bit, which Pavlos reckoned was a force two.
They say they will keep going in force four if those on the trip are up to it. The trip included one swim stop on a remote beach and a lunch stop on another beach that was fantastically clean. The tour guides brought flippers and snorkling gear so that we could go out and see the fish.
They also brought lunch. A very healthy spread of break, cheese, salad, meat and fruit. This was one of the best tours we have ever done and it ended on a beach just past the airport which has a bar. After helping the team pack the boats we enjoyed a beer and a can of diet coke in the bar with all who had taken part.
Excellent. I’d recommend the team from Monte Nero Activities. Their website is www.monte-nero-activities.com/.
We got back to the apartment at 17:30 for showers and two episodes of the podcast while I edited the photos and wrote the diary. As I write, I notice that Tom is asleep. Bless him; he has done so well today. He is a star. I’ll wake him so he can have a shower and we can go into Lassi for dinner. Probably at the Phaedra – call us boring, but it is so good it doesn’t make sense to try anywhere else.
We went down to the village and wandered around a bit and bought Mike his Barcelona footy shirt. We looked at several restaurants but ended up at Phaedra again. Tom had swordfish, which he didn’t really like, and I had chicken kebab, so I swapped with Tom and he enjoyed the kebab which I thought the swordfish was brill.
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