Night ferry

On Sunday we put our bags in storage behind the front desk, spent the day on the beach at Ammos, showered in the spa room, collected our bags again, said goodbye to our first stop in Greece and headed on for a new adventure just after dinner.  Meaning, we took the overnight ferry!  At a very young age I swore I'd never board a cruise ship (thanks to the makers of the Black Stallion movie) and I fully intended to stick by that pledge my whole life.  It turns out the night ferry is JUST like a cruise ship.  Whoops.  And we lived!  I had planned to board the boat and immediately locate life jackets, but the Greeks were one step ahead of me with the jackets permanently stored in the sleeping cabins.

These ferries in Greece are unlike anything I've experienced before, and I'm glad we tried them. But even as giant and as smooth as they are, the engines make a considerable vibration and by the second ferry, two of us needed a small dose of Dramamine. We disembarked the night ferry at 6am, walked across the port and caught our 5 hour ferry ride to Naxos at 7:30am.

That's the moon coming up.

And here we are in the morning boarding the second ferry...

Our seats inside the ferry to Naxos.