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Lamari Stream Euboea. 22 and 28 August 2015
Euboea (or Evia) is an island
just east of Athens; it is a microcosm of Greece.
An escape for lots of Athenians is
a free-camping spot known as Chiliadou. Chiliadou - pronounced "hiliadou" - is just over Mount Dirfis - on the central east coast of the long island. It takes me two and a half ours of easy driving to reach it. A wonderful aspect is that you actually climb a mountain with Greek firs and rock buntings and then descent to an oceanic coastline that almost resembles an exotic windward oceanic island.
I recently took my son and his two friends there for free camping (just dropped them off at a camping site and left). It was immediately after a long night rain. They spent five
days. Lamari stream, with its intermittent stretch near the sea was flowing
full force – ten meters wide and brown on the 22nd of August. Five days later, when I returned to pick them up, the same spot was bone
dry.
The sea was influenced by the
Lamari stream plume – the shallows were totally turbid! Its colour was a chalkish brown-blue.
There was also a oceanic swell, not conducive for snorkeling. The teenagers had a good stay, I
recommend it.
Some snapshots follow:
22 August
28 August
