Friday 29th July - a tour of the calanques from Marseille with Blue Evasion. Today was the day we had been waiting for.........exploring the calanques from Marseille and getting to jump off the boat and do some swimming in and around the calanques. For those of you reading the blog, you may remember that we have done a calanque trip before from Cassis - this was a great trip but you did not get to get off the boat! There is one big boat from Marseille that you are allowed to swim off - but they do not allow children under 10............so that was not an option for us.
The Blue Evasion company had great reviews and certainly lived up to expectations -
Our boat arriving - yay - and on time! 9.30am and we are off -
Here is Connor with our captain Baruk waiting for his life jacket to be fitted. In France it is not a requirement to wear life jackets on boats and nobody seems to............you can request them however for children under 10 years. We did! Interesting how there are no laws for boats but children up to 10 years are required to be in safety seats in cars.
Heading out on this beautiful hot summers day - very little wind and forecast to be 34 degrees today - we are sun-screened up - Connor has borrowed Karl's hat as he had a bucket-hat which was at risk of blowing off - should not have worried as Karl's hat got blown off Connor's head anyway! C'est la vie!
Me and Loks on the adventure!
The beautiful calanques and amazingly green and blue coloured waters - superb
Snorkling fun for all -
Connor has had enough - although the water was warm, this skinny-binny still gets blue lips and the shivers!
We snorkeled at two spots - one where there were lots of fish and amazing reefs and the other spot where there was a cave you could swim in to - both incredible!
This is me after I have been snorkling in the cave which is behind me on the right. I love my prescription swimming goggles - best purchase ever!
The captain called Loks up on the way home to drive the boat - a more excited boy you have not seen. He took it all so seriously..........great fun!
A restaurant in the middle of nowhere where you can swim up to or kayak or boat too - very cool! Blue sky and blue water - beautiful
What a great trip we had = it was great being able to jump out of the boat and explore the water in and around the calanques. Perfect to have the time to do the calanque trip from Marseille which included two calanques; the one from Cassis which included 8 calanques and an earlier experience we had to walk into a calanque - perfect! We now feel like we have truly experienced the calanques in our region.
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