Today began with another road trip in Kefalonia to see more of this beautiful island.

The first stop was the Drogarati Cave where descended 60 meters to view stalactites and stalagmites in a pretty vast open cave. It wasn’t quite as vast Luray Caverns that we visited years ago in Virginia, but impressive nonetheless.

Our second stop was 10 minutes away at the Melissani Lake — a cave with a large opening above, resulting from an earthquake. It takes 14 days for salt water to run from one side of the island in the capital of Argostoli (where we are staying) to Melissani Lake where it mixes with fresh water, and then exit out the bay of Sami. The water mixture combined with when the sun beats down on the cave opening results in the water looking a bright shade of blue. At times, it was clear enough to see all the way to the bottom. We spotted three eels in the water while the boat took us around the entire inside.

On our way to the third stop we wound our way up and down around Agia Dyanati, the 2nd highest mountain on the island, which gave us a great view of Myrtos beach from yesterday.

Next stop was the picturesque town of Assos, an adorable little seaside village with a small, beautiful, rocky beach. We grabbed lunch at Seaside cafe; we couldn’t beat the view with the beach literally at our feet and the small harbor, village and castle as our backdrop, while we ate Greek Salad, Italian salad, calamari, and a chocolate crepe for D. Afterwards, Paul and D walked up to the remains of a 16th century Venetian fortress/castle that was never finished. The views over Assos itself and the west coast of Kefalonia were incredible.

I took a spot at the “Little beach” just a short walk from the main beach where we had lunch.

After the walk, we all got some swimming in before heading back to Argostoli.

For dinner tonight, Paul and D returned to Ladokolla for more delicious meat. D got a pork gyro while Paul got the kontosouvli, a hunk of pork slow roasted on a rod over an open charcoal spit. Because I was working, the boys brought me back chicken souvlaki.