This was the next day, Monday, when we were back to work though in shifts. I was on the second shift and so started the day by taking a picture of the hotel sign and then settling in for breakfast though I was unable to record the number on my egg.

At the lab, I took a picture of Andreas and Vracule and back at the hotel, I had a spinach and feta pie to tide me over before dinner which I ate as I watched the locals tried to clear the beach at the hotel of rocks. Because they were still a work in progress, we headed off in search of the THE black beach. A 2 km drive down a dirt road took us here but after viewing the setting and looking back to the red beach boundary we realized we were in the wrong place and so after a photo op at the gift shop, we headed on this time down a 1 km road that was steeper and dustier until we got to the next resort where we looked out at their beach and enjoyed the view and the stones of their beach before heading down the beach where some might swim as I admired the water the rocks bounding our beach and the scene in the distance as some others entered the water over the rocks that didn't end at the water's edge. The rock formations were impressive with a cave at the boundary and along the way as I watched the water the sailboat in a distance and collected a rock.

The heart shape in the rocks reminded me that in the opposite direction the sun was beginning to set as the swimmers continued to enjoy the water and the sun continued its way down the rocks (or were they pebbles) continued to amuse while the colors of sunset were vivid and the swimmers made their way back to shore as the sailboat made great progress towards the other end of the cove.

I took pictures of the structures built into caves

as we drove out of the beach and went to see our second sunset of the day. The caldera gave beautiful view as did the landscape up to where we were which inspired me to consider a collection of pictures of people at telescopes even as the sunset inspired Tim to dance while I recorded its effect on the land in various directions

and on the hill below where we stood. As often happens, when the sun went down, the moon (with a planet) came up and I looked out at the lighthouse in the great distance before declaring the sun set so that we could make our way into the town of Fira for dinner. Nikolas, our new friend, posed with Ben and Mathew and then brought me artichokes and potatoes in lemon and brought others mousaka and lamb. At meal's end, he brought us all complimentary raisin wine and then took these group pictures.