Visitors to our beautiful island. You are here to enjoy and have fun. We appreciate that you have chosen our lovely home island to visit and to enjoy. But please consider those of us who use the beaches year round -- the islanders and the animals such as caretta caretta. As tourism on the island begins to boom, we have noticed how careless tourists have become. Trash thrown along the roadside close to heavily touristic areas. The most visited beaches, such as Platis and Makris Gialos (our own local beaches) littered with cigarette butts, dirty napkins and other things, stuck in the sand.
The islanders do *not* have the capability to clean the sand weekly, such as many US and european beaches are. They cannot carry the big machines that dredge through the sand, due to many of our local beaches being inaccessible (like Platis and Makris, Myrtos, Spartia and Avithos, to name a few). You cannot haul a machine down a craggy cliff. These things that make our island so beautiful, rugged, and so special, must have special care taken.
Thanks to Niki Katsouris and her Society for the Preservation of Nature, the beaches are cleaned by caring locals. But you can imagine how we feel, going to our favorite beach during the height of tourist season, laying in the sand on a straw mat and being faced with yogurt containers and cigarette butts! Please take good care of our precious island, and your vacation will be even more enjoyable!
Sea Turtle Protection Society of GreeceA study on caretta carettaMEDASSET - Mediterranean Association Sea Turtle ProjectKefallonian Marine Turtle Project
monachus.org - Kefalonian Sea Lion Info.
MOUNT AENOS
THE BLONDIE PROJECT - NonProfit dedicated to our Wild Aenos Horses
Wild Horses of Aenos Protection League - Courtesy of Sue Thompson
NATURAL PHENOMENA/NATURAL HISTORY INFO.
Scientific Paper and Research on the Underground Sea Mill Caves
Natural History Museum of Cephalonia and Ithaca
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