Day 16 - Santorini

This morning we woke up to a windy overcast day that didn't look good for diving. We had breakfast and it started to look a little better but not much. Donna, Noel and I headed off to meet Kostas our dive boat operator and the day was starting to look better. By the time we got to the dive shop Aegean Divers the sun was shinning. We got kitted out at the shop the headed down to Vlichada Port. It  is hard to put on a 5mm wet suit I can tell you when you are a bit sweaty to being with, they are not easy to get on. We met a fellow Aussie Mark from Victor Harbour who will also be on our flight to Athens tomorrow, small world.  We also had some people Noel met at the pool diving as well who are from France.

By the time we got to the harbour it was another magnificent day thank goodness. We boarded the boat which is a good size and has a canopy which is great, no baking in the sun. Our first dive was on Perissa Rock 1 which was max depth 25 meters and we dived for 38 mins. The water is very clear and so blue it is like blue loo has been added. They say the water is 24 but I think more like 20 as it was rather fresh going down the wet suit. The sea scape is much like the land scape, not too much life. We did see a groper, eel, nudiebranch, fish that look a bit like sweep and leather jackets.

After a mixture of snacks and surface break we did our second dive at Perissa Rock 2. This dive had much more fish and interesting rock formations to explore. We dive for about. 35 mins and got to around 16 meters. Although I was a bit cold on this dive I enjoyed the crystal clear blue water and now I can say 'dive Greek islands', there is no way the water is 24.

Got back to our villa and had a bite to eat before a well deserved shower, swim for Noel and then had better start to look a packing the suitcase as we leave Greece tomorrow for Turkey.

We watched our final Santorini sunset from our balcony before walking into Fira for dinner.