sight

The island provides many varying shades of green. This palette includes the greens of sage, grapes, olive trees, ivy, unripe plums, and cyanotype residue.

Σεντούκια

The trip to Sendoukia was one of the most interesting excursions I've been on during my time in Skopelos. Being up at that burial sight gave me chills. It was the highest up a mountain here I've been, we took a long moment of silence to take it all in: the incredible view, the graves, but especially the eerie feeling that we experienced there.

I think my sixth sense would have to be the thoughts that went through my head at this place. It is rumored that pirates created these graves, but our intuition told us that this site took a lot of hard labor to build: the graves were perfectly chiseled out of the rock with perfect right angles; this was a place built for someone more important.

The feeling at the top of that mountain gave us a feeling of royalty, even holiness, and I'll never forget that weird sense of being in a place where so much work was done, in order to give whoever these people were, a incredible resting place.

sound

Contrary what is said of roosters, here they do not act as alarm clocks and alert us at dawn. Instead, their "Cock-a-doodle-doos" pierce the air at any given time of the day, calling to other roosters and just becoming a nuisance, especially when attempting to take an afternoon nap.

touch

taste

The fruit on the island is so plentiful and sweet that even the smallest of creatures enjoy the feast it provides.

smell

Herbs are found growing wild all over the island in incredible amounts so that their scent makes the air smell sweet.

One of my favorite and first memories on the island was the night of our welcoming banquet, when Zoey kept pulling the leaves off of the Basil plant and bringing them around for everyone to smell.


(Top: Basil, Bottom: Sage from the Sendoukia burial sight)