Wednesday, November 22, 2023

22 November 2023 Vouliagmeni: 4.5 miles Out to the Other Side of the Bay and Back

 


We had rain in the morning but it stopped so I headed out to work these old legs.  It was a total of 4.5 miles of walking and I tried to keep up a fast pace.  There were some parakeets on the way and construction as well.  A big building is going up at the port / marina.  Along the road I had to skirt around where they were making a ditch for what looked like power lines.  There were birds but nothing new, just magpies, ringed doves, sparrows, black redstart, yellow legged gulls and a cormorant.  The end of the road was the end of the land.  Time to turn around and rejoin my sweetie pie.  We spent the afternoon making more travel plans and actually called the Toronto AirBnB host to get our stay extended.  He said it would be fine so now we are waiting to see it pop on the computer.  All the cats ion the neighborhood have heard about the goodies that can be obtained from outside our sliding doors.  Now we have Stubby Mustache Man, Mudface, Slippers Old Grey Hair and a new cat awaiting a nickname


Ringed neck parakeet


Great plumage


The big boat has returned


Magpie


Cormorant


Black redstart


Getting to the end of the spit of land


Sparrows


Yellow Legged Gull


Not a person in sight


But wait...is this a makeshift shelter?


Old fortifications?


End of the road


Seagull on the edge


The Sunken lake is over on that side of the bay


Splashing waves


This is as close as I am going to get


A large ridge of rock jutting out into the sea


The trail was not great


Looking back into the bay


A long drop down


Another odd looking cave / shelter


Not mush of a shrine, just a few walls left


Up on the foils


Under this green graffiti was a Nazi graffiti just last week


The path


Mr Mustache


Stubbs!


The sunset is once again superb


Extending way up above the horizon


Deep crimson 


The sun is down



It has been 1 year and 170 days since we began our Migration