Getting ready to help a new boat come in…….

You have to drop your anchor and then back up, throw lines to folks on the shore to tie them off and then adjust it all.  Not sure what we would do if there weren’t folks to help.  Sometimes there are “lazy lines” attached to mooring balls that you use rather than drop your anchor.  All goes much more smoothly when the winds are calm.

We spent all of our meal times at Aphrodite because they were recommended by friends Sue and Ed Kelly on Angel Louise and because they were nice people with good food.  (Although my friend Martha;s Greek fish soup is better.)

Quarter litre of wine was served in the gold pitchers.

Randal at the computer as most restaurants offer free wifi

Pali church

Homes around town

Profusion of pink

Old, now closed hydropathic institute?  I’m just not sure though from the description in Greek Waters Pilot it sounds as if this it was it is. 

Beach with lots of black volcanic stones

I collected several

Black volcanic stones… how to choose which ones to collect? 

More visits to Aphrodite

The owner’s daughter and her husband

Randal computing during diner; I brought a book and shared the blue half litre of the lovely light white wine.

Night time was lively but quite and great for sleeping as it was really quite cool.  With now Marmaris booming noise we could leave portholes open for the cool night air.

Nearby Giali island where pumice stone is quarried and exported worldwide.

Painted  doors

Patio overlooking the sea

Nikia is surrounded by fields and terraced hillsides

A tiny chapel and cemetery

I don’t know what this is; wild artichoke or thistle or something else all-together.  Anyone know?

A slightly enhanced close up.

I loved the purple flower against the white of the church

View of the terraced hillside: grapes, figs, olives…

Some lanes face along the seaside and some took me deep into the village

“The famous village square is paved with fine black pebbles (known in the local as hochlakia) which form a beautiful mosaic.”  http://www.greeka.com/dodecanese/nisyros/nisyros-villages/nisyros-nikia.htm

Church in Nikia

  There are two taverna in Nikia and I’d left Randal sitting in the one at the edge of town.  Motorized vehicled aren’t allowed into the village; there seemed to be no roads a car could drive along.  So after about 30 minutes I made myself find my way back to Randal and our motorbike and all too soon it was time to go.  It was on my way back to Randal when I discovered signs pointing to the view of the caldera.