Cliff Geocaching in Santorini

The first geocache we found was called Taxiarches - Santorini named after the white church Taxiarches on the cliff side that it is hidden by. It took us just over an hour from Perissa to travel to this cliff. Getting there was half the adventure and we got to tour a lot more past local houses. It's hard to tell which road leads to a certain part of a cliff when you're on the opposite edge of a cliff with a huge canyon in the middle. We parked the quad near the church and of course I checked to see if we could go inside the church. The only door that was open was to the outhouse. After we got off the quad and hiked a bit further up the hill, I heard a loud bang. I jumped in mid-step up the rocky cliff. We looked down below us and saw that there was a man with a rifle and two dogs. My first thought was okay no more geocaching for me if we're going to be shot. Colin assured me that the man was hunting birds. That's great that some guy and his dogs are out hunting birds on Monday afternoon, but I still am glad that I am wearing a pink T-Shirt so I am highly visible. This cache is not too far from Red Beach and we drove there after we found this cache.

Our second cache was located on another cliff at the highest area of the island at 505 meters above sea level. It's name is Santorini meets the clouds. It's next to a radar station, a military building and a church. The church was open, so I got to go inside and have a peak. There is a great view of the airport and there were quite a few people walking and driving up to see the view, so we had to be careful when we opened the cache.