We depart in the morning. Our first stop is made at Koutsoupia beach or Mini Myrtos.
Real gem! Koutsoupia Beach is a tropical beach and relatively unknown to the average visitor of Kefalonia. Located in a remote location and is accessible only by sea. Expensive yachts belonging to famous personalities and who each year come again to enjoy this unique place with its blue waters. We make a stop to enjoy a swim and the beautiful landscape with green hills and blue waters.
Our next stop is Antisamos beach.
It has its own unique beauty. Antisamos beach has been awarded with a blue flag, the landscape combines all shades of blue and green, where the vegetation reaches almost into the sea.
In Antisamos it is regular some of the summer evenings to chance upon concerts.
Antisamos was made famous by the filming of “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” with Penelope Cruz and Nicolas Cage.
The surrounding area is connected with the project shooting. Here in these trees was made a whole village just for the needs of the film.
We leave behind us Antisamo after a delightful dive and we set sail for Sami, a picturesque village where we stop for lunch.
From Sami we can visit by bus, Lake Melissani. A unique geological phenomenon, Lake Cave Melissani is located 2 km. northwest of Sami. The natural entrance of the cave is vertical measuring 40×50 m. and was created by the collapse of a section of the roof.
Nevertheless, there is also an artificial entrance with stairs that allows the visitor to get into to the cave. The cave was discovered by John Petrohilos in 1951. The lake is 20 m. below the ground surface, has a length of 160 m. And the water has a depth of 10 m. to 40 m. Stalactites of age 20,000 years with odd shapes adorn most of the cave.
In the center of the lake, is a small island on which artifacts was found confirming the religious function of the cave as, in antiquity, prehistoric people worshiped God Pan and the presence of female figures, known as nymphs. For this reason, the Melissani cave called Cave of the Nymphs.
Yet another geological phenomenon makes the cave unique. The water which comes from sinks located in Argostoli that is on the other side of the island, 14km. away from the cave follows a long path across ground almost the entire island and ends here in Melisanni. This was revealed in 1963 when geologists Viktor Maurin and Josef Zötl from the Technical University of Graz, dropped 160 pounds of paint in one of the sinks. Two weeks later, traces of color found in sources on the other side of the island, 14 km. away, as well as in the grotto of Melissani.
While on our way back to base we make a stop at the picturesque Poros. Poros is the third port of Kefalonia and simultaneously a very pretty village which combines mountain and sea.
We take some commemorative photos over ship, and we are heading back late in the evening.
