Between Then and Now Falasarna

We headed west to stay a couple of nights at Kolumbari. Our plan was to go to the Navy Ball and then to visit the monastery in Kolumbari and the Roman ruins of the sea port at Falasarna. The food at the Navy Ball was wonderful, but the dance music was so loud we had to leave. There is a picture looking out over Kolumbari, then some of Falasarna and the monastery.

We went to the beach for a bit before lunch. The picture of the beach also shows the land jutting out into the water where the Roman Port was located.

While we were at a restaurant, just getting ready to leave we thought a huge wind had come up and was rocking some large sea shells on the counter. When it dawned on us that we were experiencing an earth quake we did nothing sensible, like get out of the building and away from things that could fall on us. We just stood there amazed. The earthquake was off the west cost of Crete, so we were as close to it as possible. We had just finished visiting the Roman ruins of the sea port that is now 8 meters above sea level. The current thought is that most of the uplift came in a single event. You would think that after just looking at how much movement can occur in a single event that we would have been a little more alarmed.

To understand the sign in the last photo, you need to know the the letter, in Greek, that looks like an "I" in English, the letter Iota, is pronounced "E", like "E" in feet.