With summer vacation coming to a close (Jaxon starts school tomorrow) I thought it was high time to document our summer adventures. It has been a great! It all started the end of June when Daniel's parents came out for a visit. Somehow we convinced them to leave the day after their arrival to drive to Savona, Italy and spend the night there before hopping on an early morning boat to Corsica and cruising down to the islands southernmost tip. All I can say is that they are troopers! Corsica has been Daniel's dream for years, and now it finally came true.
It was a four hour boat ride, during which everyone enjoyed the scenery and the breeze on the deck. With the exception of me, huddled inside the boat on my laptop. Based on the pictures they seemed to have had a great time.
As soon as we got off the boat in Bastia we took off toward Bonifacio. We chose this destination not only because it looked beautiful, but also due to its easy access, 2 1/2 hours from Bastia on the best maintained, least windy road on the island. Unfortunately we found that this particular road was closed just outside of Bastia because of a large accident. So we were forced through the center of the island and forged our way through the windy road south. All in all it took closer to 5 hours, but it was a beautiful drive and well worth the effort.
Our first real day in Corsica we left the island for an even smaller group of islands, the Lavezzi islands, notable due to their odd rock formations. We hiked around for awhile until we found the perfect beach.
If you can make out two little shadow people on the rocks in the background that would be Daniel and Richard.
This was the first time that Jaxon really figured out the snorkel and went snorkeling. He quickly became a snorkeling machine. Couldn't be stopped! I loved being able to see him discover this new underwater world. It is really some of the best snorkeling we have done and I was thrilled that he was able to enjoy it.
Jonas alternately enjoyed swimming...
And napping in his makeshift bed.
Jaxon and I sat on the front of the boat for the first portion of the trip, and got drenched. Which would have been nicer had it not been for the cool wind whipping us around.
The boat trip back was a scenic ride along the cliffs and the sea caves. Unfortunately Jaxon missed most of it.
Our next day we took some time to enjoy Bonafacio and its environs.
We took a hike along the cliff line out to a lighthouse.
Enjoying a somewhat violent lunch.
Reaching the lighthouse.
Later that afternoon we hiked down this super-steep stairway to where the Bonifacians used to go the fetch water. Or so they said. But I didn't see any fresh water down there.
It was very cool, if not so safe. But even Jonas survived, in spite of his death wish.
This part, with no barrier, kind of creeped even me out.
I love old steep stairs.
It was a great day.
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