Paxos y Antipaxos

“After the second entrance, the main one in Achai cave, comes another cave which is completely black inside. Then we come to another point and then Punta Turko Apotripitó, also known as Kavo Stu Turku, along which you can easily pass by boat. It has some outwardly sloped layers and a thin point. Then come white capes, thicker at the bottom and thin above. They’re called Vromomeri because water drips down with a stench of prea ( xeropisi). There’s also an underwater reef. We can see Romiti cove, with a double-arched fountain and the terraces above. Some Holm oaks grow in the small, high valley between Punta Turko and Romiti.”

   

Then comes a small cave followed by very tall walls on top of which is the old castle of Spitia Ellinika. Then comes the entrance to Grava Stu Grammatiku or Gravas Tis Phokas which is so-called because seals used to live there. From the sea it looks especially wild and marvellous. Grava Stu Grammatiku is a large and impressive cave with a strange wildness to it. You can easily enter with your boat so long as the sea is calm, something not very common along the western coast. You have to be very careful and enter close to the rocky shore so that the rocks which often fall from the cliffs above do not hit you. We then come to the lighthouse point.”