The boat cruise went around the island east to west. Our first stop was the Grotto Azzura. A huge cave with only a one meter opening accessed only by boat. We had to leave our tour boat, hop into row boats and sit on the floor of the row boat ducking our heads. Thre spectacular blue colour is from the reflection of the sun coming up under the water in the cave with only the small amount of light coming through the opening to see the water. Being inside a cave, the sound is great and our rowers sang like gondoliers in Venice.
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| View inside the grotto. Beautiful deep blue water and luxurious sound |
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| one meter opening to get into the cave (grotto) Boater pull themselves through with that chain |
The boat took only about an hour to circumnavigate the island even with all the stops to check out caves. Our boat would just go into a cave a turn around so we did not get off again. I took a lot of pics of Romans ruins and steep rocky cliffs. Beautiful island. I could live here for a while.
After my cruise, I walked back up to our hotel and they moved us up to a related hotel that has a better room for us. Super nice of them to upgrade us and drive us back and forth. The new hotel is right in Capri Centre so we walked around a bit, had lunch again at the same place as yesterday.
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| Good bye to Hotel Excelsior Parco-the column apparently cam from ancient Roman ruins |
Then I went for a walk up to the Roman ruins. It is called Villa Jovis and can be reached only on foot but is a nice old stove paved path. The Romans were here since at least the first century BC.
I was walking around the site and heard a little whine behind me and noticed these two walking on the walls.
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