Discovering Crete, Part 9 - Night falls upon Mátala [Mobile photography]
Greetings Steemians!
After a delicious and sumptuous dinner which I enjoyed at the end of my last post, I went on a digestive stroll along the bay.
The west orientation of the bay makes Mátala a great place to enjoy the setting sun. The golden glow that illuminates the alleys and the surrounding sandstone is just marvellous:
The bow of a ship that never moves...
(In fact, it is the terrace of a restaurant, modelled after a ship's bow. Can you see the exotic bird, too?)
The last rays of the sun.
After the sun has set, spotlights take over and illuminate the sandstone rocks. Quite a stretch for my iPhone's cam.
Venus, the "Evening Star" appears over the cliff. Time for a good night's sleep before heading to the next destination.
Thanks for watching and 'til next time!
Shaka
All photos were recorded by myself with an iPhone 6S in May, 2018. All rights reserved.
Discovering Crete - All previous posts:
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| Part 1, Agiofárango I | Part 2, Agiofárango II |
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| Part 3, Monastery Odigítrias I | Part 4, Monastery Odigítrias II |
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| Part 5, Phaistos I | Part 6, Phaistos II |
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| Part 7, Phaistos III | Part 8, Mátala I |
Wow, what a flashback. Spent some time in one of the ground level caves back in the mid 70's. That was before the night lighting. My guess is that overnight stays are now forbidden too?
Really, you have been there in the 70s? Cool! Have you met some of the cafe dwellers.
I assume it's nowadays officially forbidden to set camp there but I heard that a few hardened hippies / alternatives are still living in some of the more remote caves.
Not sure if you mean those who hung out and worked in the cafe or if it is a typo and you meant cave dwellers.
There was some drinking done in the Mermaid Cafe (obligatory to Joni Michell fans at the time) yet no deep connections made with the folks who worked there. Used to party with folks who also were staying in the caves. One such night almost cost me my life.
We had been drinking and smoking in one of the upper tiered caves and it was getting late and time to lay my tipsy head down. Went walking out of there as if it were my ground floor cave. It was right out of a road runner cartoon. Either in the fall or the landing I became unconscious.
It was late in the quiet night when consciousness returned. The memory of travelling to Greece was still vivid, yet had no idea if I was still in Greece nor where was the present location in the dark moonless night. My hosts had been staying in a cave that was more on the inland side which placed me after the fall in, what at that time had been, a small olive grove.
I started walking through the grove until finally coming to the road on the other side. Having no idea which way to go I chose to the right which led me into Matala. A left turn would have had me stumbling along the roadway for many kilometers. My memory started coming back (or maybe I was just more sober at that point) once coming into town, eventually finding my way back across the beach to recover in my cave.
Lost one of my nine cat's lives that night.
Thank you very much for contributing your personal story about that night. For me, this contributes more to the peculiarity of this place than a travel guide could ever do.
And yes, as you rightly suspected, I obviously meant those staying in the caves :)
Cheers!
lieber @shaka, das hat sich zu einer wirklich beeindruckenden serie entwickelt. wunderschöne impressionen und die stätten der minoer sind für mich ganz besonders interessant. es gibt doch auch ein museum auf kreta. vielleicht steht das ja noch auf deiner liste. lg
p.s.: check doch mal die reihenfolge der teile. da gibt es jetzt zwei 5. und zwei 7. teile :-)
Ach herrje, vielen Dank für dein aufmerksames Auge! Ist korrigiert.
Museumsbesuche standen dieses Mal nicht auf der Liste. Es bleibt weiterhin eine Outdoor-Tour :)
Freut mich zu lesen, dass dir die Serie bislang gefallen hat.
Wow, these cliff shadows by the lights are looking awesome.
is it a bird, or is it a flag looks like a bird :) ?
phantastic trip!
The latter :) It's the Bob-Marley flag which I also captured in the previous post. Found it kind of special that the flag got frozen by the cam in the shape of a bird. Adds somewhat of a Caribbean flair to the image :)
hehe
Really amazing and i want to say one thing that, people who will spend their time in those houses close to SEA then in my opinion they will going to feel the blessed essence because the view is just beautiful and so admirable.
The immovable bow of Ship possibly telling the old stories and also telling the strength of old and ancient times. And these kind of untouched and gem like places can be proved as great explorative places.
Specially i liked the Last Rays of the Sun picture and literally that effect is so beautiful and it's looking as Sun is trying to hide but those rays of sun made sun caught.
After sun set for sure those rocks are literally shining and their beauty got expanded and the add on effect in those rocky pictures is the evening star venus and these kind of scenes can create great essence in heart.
Wishing you an great day and stay blessed. 🙂
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hey bot, grammatikalisch geht da noch was :-)
Das ist der große Unterschied zu anderen Kuratoren, es ist eben kein Bot sondern jemand aus Fleisch und Blut der entscheidet wer ein Upvotes erhält.
Da sind nun Österreicher, Schweizer und eben auch deutsche abwechselnd als Kurator tätig und jeder kann seinen kleinen Info Kommentar so formulieren wie er es möchte, sogar mit Fehlern :)
Falls du Interesse an dem hast was wir machen, oder mithelfen möchtest, darunter fällt auch Korrektur lesen oder lektorieren, bist du bei uns herzlich Willkommen.
Gruß @greece-lover
freut mich, das es sich um manuelle curation handelt. ich selber handle so und darum kommt für mich ein anschluss nicht in frage. wir sind wenige genug. es lebt zunehmend genau davon. für alles andere muss man mittlerweile zahlen. und jemandem wie @shaka gehören immer meine 100%. da ich nebenher aber auch noch einen full-time-job habe, kann ich mich auch aus diesem grund nirgendwo binden. vielen dank für das angebot, lieber @greece-lover. lg
I hope that you really enjoyed two weeks of this tour, and i want to say that you captured some gems of Nature. This place have very unique essence and all stuff like, mountains, trees, flowers and animals, and every stuff reflecting natural beauty. You shared some macro pictures and those pictures are just amazing to watch. And in my opinion the most beautiful picture is the one where we can see an rocky way but those flowers on both sides making this picture as way towards amazing world.
In my opinion the goat is having nice time roaming there, most of the time rocky and mountain places have very raw essence but this place literally have beautiful mixture.
Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂
Wirklich herrliche Aussichten. Wie lange warst du dort unterwegs?
Viel zu kurz, 12 Tage...
Sehr geile Bilder, sieht man mal wieder gut, wie weit die „Handy Kameras“ vortgeschritten sind 👍 up
Das stimmt. Bei guten Lichtverhältnissen gelingen Landschaftsaufnahmen fast ohne Abstriche.
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In "Groß" kommen die beiden Bilder aus der Collage des letzten Posts tatsächlich noch mal ganz anders zur Geltung. Aber ein echter Star ist natürlich auch die Venus über dem leuchtenden Kliff!!!
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Danke Dir, im Übrigen auch für den sneakninja-attack beim letzen Mal :), Grüsse!
Nichts zu danken - habe ich gerne gemacht... ;-)