Riding the Jumping Goats * (12)

Ιουλίου 12, 2009 στο 6:41 μμ · Κατηγορία Ikaria, Sea, sport ·Με ετικέτα , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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BodySurfing at Messakti Beach, Ikaria island in the Aegean sea
( * title inspired from an interesting etymology of the word “Aegean” )

But others went on surfing in the meltemi for as long as they could see their noses.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Meltemi.jpg

Spiral winds…

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Το κρατησες μυστικο, ε; Τρεχω τωρα στο http://www.flickr.com/groups/ikaria και θα τα πω ολα!

Wednesday September 10, 2008 – 10:30am (PDT) Remove Comment

Τα είπες και “έγραψες” πάλι Ελένη!

Wednesday September 10, 2008 – 10:19pm (EEST) Remove Comment

I see two giant, spiral seashells on the map. Enjoy holding them up to your ears.

Wednesday September 10, 2008 – 05:54pm (EDT) Remove Comment

Oops! Can! Right when I wanted to ask you this question. Tell me friend, have you heard of a mountain in Turkey by the name “Baba Dag”? An uncle of my grandmother who was in the sea and knew about the weather was telling stories that it was this mountain that regulated the weather. Is there a Baba Dag? It’s a funny name. It means Father Mountain, doesn’t it? Maybe it’s an old popular metaphor. Anyway, do you know anything about it?

Thursday September 11, 2008 – 10:54am (PDT) Remove Comment

Hmm…Yes it is a quite common name indeed and I know at least three Babadags in Western Turkey. The one that came to my mind first is the mountain near Aphrodisias, not so far from Ikaria. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dimilinchen/8701584/
Do you have any details of this story? I am also curious now. :-)

Thursday September 11, 2008 – 04:29pm (EDT) Remove Comment

at ‘elle’ : Το topic ‘Why the wind, why the wave?’ στο http://www.flickr.com/groups/ikaria είναι φανταστικό. Ξέρεις ρε παιδάκι μου να κάνεις μεγαλειώδεις παρουσιάσεις ας είναι και για ένα απλό πραγματάκι (**στο χάρτη φαίνεται και κάτι άλλο: ότι το μελτέμι που δροσίζει την Αθήνα έρχεται από τη “Μακεδονία”!!!)

at ‘can’ : oh:)) you are one who was really born near the sea! Thank you. I will do as you say.

Friday September 12, 2008 – 10:39am (EEST) Remove Comment

Tha’t was a great photo! Thank you Can. Looks like a very mystic place. However, I followed the link under the photo and in that info page there was a map where I saw that this mountain is too far to the south to be able to ‘regulate the weather’ in the central Aegean.
I was always suspicious at this expression. How can a mount regulate the weather. What I know is that if mountains do something about the weather, is that they ‘tell the weather’, not regulate it.
So I think this Baba dag and the weather was a ‘fisherman’s tale’. Seems like my good great grand uncle just wanted to make an impression. Those were times when the islands turned their face to the east and not to the west as it is today. Today I often hear people say “it rained in Athens so it might rain in Ikaria too”! The distance between Ikaria and Attica is over 200 n.miles, as long as it is between Ikaria and Baba Dag!
It would be better if they looked carefully at the sky, or get a detailed weather forecast. But people just want to make everything as simple as possible, don’t they?

Thanks for giving my friend two seashells full of wind for her ears. I am tired of seeing her with hanging wires and earphones!

Friday September 12, 2008 – 10:46am (PDT)

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