Samos Island

We left Kusadashi in the morning and went to the island of Samos.  It is a Greek Island in the eastern Aegean Sea.   A very quaint, idealic island.  (beware - picture overload!)

Here is the boat we took across, leaving Turkey.

 We said our good-byes to our guide, Belgin.  What a precious girl!  We gave her a gift and a blessing; that she would know how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ!


I love the wake left by a boat.

 Fishermen

 Most of us stayed on the top deck and enjoyed the sunshine and breeze.

On the left are Ann and Conda.  We joked that we could remember their name "anaconda"!

A few went below

Samos Island

 The apostle Paul only briefly stopped there on his way to Miletus where he said good-bye to the Ephesian elders at the end of his 3rd missionary journey.

Acts 20:15  "And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus."

We found a place that would store all our luggage for the morning while we explored the island.  We walked around with Janice and Mike (small world - they happen to know our son-in-law's sister and family!  Worked with them in Papau New Guinea!)

We stopped for lunch.

Isn't this island so adorable???

We found a pharmacy - two pharmacists, an American and a Greek

Story behind this - I have always thought it would be a great idea if somehow they could invent a way that if you see something, you wouldn't need to fuss about getting your camera out to take a picture.  You should be able to blink or touch your forehead and snap an instantaneous picture.  Well, we found this camera that fits on your head.  Would that work?

Ice-cream!  YES!

At the appointed time, we met back at the place that stored our luggage.

We formed a line to take all the luggage out of the store and get it loaded on a bus for the next leg of the trip - a flight to Athens.