Maddy from Earth Sea & Sky here. Thank you for your kind comments, Yannis is very happy, it is important to him that people appreciate his work to keep Gerakas the way you like it! Please help us as well, to pick up litter and watch out for the turtle nests. Your support is key to keeping Gerakas the way nature intended.

 

Thank you also to all of you who thought better of not removing the clay from the beach and cliffs. We had big problems this year, so much damage was done by people hacking it out of the cliffs, it was unbelievable, they even caused 3 or 4 rock falls.  Gerakas is a very unique area, the cliffs keep the sand intact on the beach, so if we lose the cliffs, then we all lose the beach we love.

 

Here are some photos of Gerakas - at sunset, and also what quite a lot of people got up to in July and August at the clay end, before we closed it off. 

 

Hope to see you soon at Gerakas - drop in at our Centre!!! We have lots of interesting things to watch and people to talk to.

 

Best wishes

M & Y xx

I wouldn't recommend walking to Dafni from Kalamaki at all, as it is all hills, and no beach, so it is dangerous and impossible to walk to.  You have to walk up into the mountains, which is very difficult going.  However, you can swim from Kalamaki!!! 

 

Dafni Beach used to be really beautiful until they deliberately trashed the beach with rocks, stones, rubble, and built loads of illegal building, tavernas and car parks, basically to put off turtles.  They have done so much damage.  Bulldozed the sand dunes to turn them into a sun bathing area, complete with a lawn and tropical palm trees.  Dafni also used to be the second most important nesting beach in Laganas Bay for the Loggerhead turtles, and now nesting is seriously reduced, almost disappeared.   (Sorry, you might have guessed, but I don't like Dafni!)

 

The best place to walk is at Gerakas. You need to drive to it, but you can do a circular walk from the beach, up into the hills and Vasilikos forest, down towards Porto Roma and then back again.  You can either get the guided trail from Friends of the Ionian, or if you are on the island this summer, come to Gerakas, and get a self-guided trail from the Earth Sea & Sky Info Centre just up from the beach.

 

Thanks

Maddy

 

 

Yannis,Tinika and Xhronis are very friendly!