This temple to Poseidon (ca. 440 B.C.) is at Cape Sounion. We stopped here on our way to the port town of Lavrion on a very windy day.
The promontory drops more than 100 meters into the sea and is the first landfall in Athenian territory as one sails towards it from the Cyclades Islands.
We stopped here to listen to Anastasia tells us about the ruins but you can see from her hair that the wind was really strong. Later we learned it had been gale force winds. We all had ear pieces to hear her narrate our tours.
I had to ask the question about how well those rock forms were balanced and how they could withstand these winds. I learned that they are not just resting there, but have holes and pegs holding them in place.
Over the years visitors have left their names scratched into the stones. Lord Byron's name is purported to be on one of the columns inside. We didn't get to go in the Temple, but you can see names in Greek on the stones below.
Listen to the wind in this short video.
This is Tommy, the resident photographer, taking photos throughout our trip.
We are windblown.
From here we returned to our warm bus for the ride to lunch and then the port where we met our ship for the rest of the trip.
We stayed another night here in port because the windy conditions would have resulted in really rough sailing. The itinerary was changed as a result and the first island stop was nixed. We made the others but in a different order.
Next stop Syros.
