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Damnoni is located 35km south of Rethymno and 5km east of Plakias. It is a popular tourist resort, very well developed and organized. Damnoni is located at the exit of a large valley, protected by high mountains.
The beach that stretches in front of the resort is a long bay with beautiful turquoise waters and coarse white sand. Here you will find all the services of a very well organized beach like umbrellas, snack bars, showers, changing rooms, water sports, scuba diving centre, great hotels, restaurants, horse riding centre etc. The west end of the beach, the most organized part, has a small river with water all year round. Moreover, there is a tavern in the middle of the beach “drowned” in tamarisk trees. The eastern end of the beach is quieter and is linked with the adjacent beaches of Ammoudi via a short dirt road.
Moreover, beyond the west end of the beach there are several small coves with sand and rocks, where you can get isolated. These are located just next to the small harbor of the area.
For further information please visit www.cretanbeaches.com/Beaches/Rethymnon/damnoni-beach/#ix... and www.hapimag.com/en/offer/resorts-residences/greece/damnon...
Crete (Greek: Κρήτη, Kríti ['kriti]; Ancient Greek: Κρήτη, Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.The capital and the largest city of Crete is Heraklion. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits (such as its own poetry, and music). Crete was once the center of the Minoan civilization (c. 2700–1420 BC), which is currently regarded as the earliest recorded civilization in Europe.
The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian city of Mari dating from the 18th century BC, repeated later in Neo-Assyrian records and the Bible (Caphtor). It was also known in ancient Egyptian as Keftiu, strongly suggesting some form similar to both was the Minoan name for the island.
The current name of Crete is thought to be first attested in Mycenaean Greek texts written in Linear B, through the words ke-re-te (*Krētes; later Greek: Κρῆτες, plural of Κρής),[4] and ke-re-si-jo (*Krēsijos; later Greek: Κρήσιος), "Cretan". In Ancient Greek, the name Crete (Κρήτη) first appears in Homer's Odyssey.[8] Its etymology is unknown. One speculative proposal derives it from a hypothetical Luvian word *kursatta (cf. kursawar "island", kursattar "cutting, sliver").[9] In Latin, it became Creta.
The original Arabic name of Crete was Iqrīṭiš (Arabic: اقريطش < (της) Κρήτης), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندقRabḍ al-Ḫandaq (modern Iraklion), both the city and the island became known as Χάνδαξ (Khandhax) or Χάνδακας (Khandhakas), which gave Latin and Venetian Candia, from which French Candie and English Candy or Candia. Under Ottoman rule, in Ottoman Turkish, Crete was called Girit (كريت).
For more information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete
AAW March 15 - 22: Window Light
WIT: I woke up this morning, and saw a small sliver of light from the window on my blanket - so raced downstairs, grabbed my camera and took a couple of pics. It was still pretty dark in my room as the sun was just rising. In post, cropped and brought out the bits of blanket more.
Some yummy rim light from the edge of a coastal waterfall in Cornwall yesterday. Liked the abstractiness of the illuminated shapes against the dark shale.
I didn't make it around the final bend on Oneonta Canyon. I tried mind you, but I didn't make it.
Just as I started worrying about the water being deeper than my waders, I suddenly realized that my camera pack was half way under water.
Dumb luck kept the only flooded compartment to the one I had pulled the lens out of.
Cheers to applying for equipment insureance.
A northbound BNSF coal train heads across a fill just south of Bill, Wyoming. The Powder River Basin is a great place to catch beautiful sunsets.
On my drive home tonight, the sky was pretty with the sunset and the moon hanging over the mountains.
A small spider drone done in typical fashion. Proof of existence in a totally unproductive LEGO year for me. When I was younger, it was a lack of bricks and an abundance of time. Nowadays, it’s an abundance of bricks and a lack of time. Funny how that works....
Taken in the old world charm of Soul2Soul Coast: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dolphin%20Cay/106/182/26
This night image from the space station captures sparkling cities and a sliver of daylight framing the northern hemisphere.
Image Credit: NASA
Remarkable Place, and Remarkable Time.
Talk about being at the right place at the right time. had a lot of fun in processing tried to keep the attention in the center with creating some sort of mystery-uniquness around the image.
Sliver Falls - Oregon
www.dibec.com/flickr/Sliver_Falls.jpg (HD+. Tom. You are welcome =P )
BNSF edition.
And it's not the leader those things are a dime a dozen and that's being generous...
BNSF 8367 leads three better options on a West Basin Container Terminal, California to Logistics Park Chicago, Illinois stack train at Highgrove, as the train starts to drop to the bottom of the Santa Ana River.
Better choices for a leader being: The SD70ACe second out, since the Union Pacific is the only big EMD holdout out here for road trains, a damn near spotless 700 series Dash-9 third out granted it would have to be turned if it was gonna lead an eastbound, and a harder to notice back a pretty clean 600 series rebuild trailing fourth out.
I caught this shot the other night at the house, Lincoln County, NC. I used a slow shutter to get a little more light on the moon.
An alley in Koreatown, Los Angeles, California
Nikon F3 50 with Nikkor f/1.4 on Fuji 200
August 27, 2010
Although only a sliver of Saturn's sunlit face is visible in this view, the mighty gas giant planet still dominates the view.
From this vantage point just beneath the ring plane, the dense B ring becomes dark and essentially opaque, letting almost no light pass through. But some light reflected by the planet passes through the less dense A ring, which appears above the B ring in this photo. The C ring, silhouetted just below the B ring, lets almost all of Saturn's reflected light pass right through it, as if it were barely there at all. The F ring appears as a bright arc in this image, which is visible against both the backdrop of Saturn and the dark sky.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
This plantation of Silver Birch has caught my eye many times, this is an old one but it deserves to be shown! Taken at the Arne Nature reserve in Dorset, an area of outstanding natural beauty, well worth a visit.
The clouds parted ever so slightly to allow for this tiny sliver of sun to show as the sun rose over the Milwaukee Breakwater Lighthouse with the Milwaukee Pierhead Lighthouse in the foreground.