September 18 Thursday, Mykonos

 Sept 18 Mykonos 

Today after taking the Sea Taxi from the cruise ship to Mykonos, we enjoyed the island known for its stunning coastline of soft sandy beaches and rugged rock landscape. We saw no soft sandy beaches, just rocks. What we did see was a beautiful pink pelican. Mykonos is fictionally known as the island of the winds.  No fiction about it. It was extremely windy. Mykonos is home to the 16th century windmills. We were disappointed that they didn’t have their sails up. 


Randy felt under the weather so we returned to the boat, and he rested while I hit the gym. We got lunch on the boat and spent an hour in and out of the steam room and an hour resting on the mosaic heated lounges….Devine!



Headed for the Sea Taxi

Our Cruise Boat

The white buildings of Mykonos

Windmills


A Pink Pelican

View from the Water Taxi

All the seaside houses

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