Here’s a strange thing. A visitor brought this to me the other day, and I am still baffled by it. There’s a section of coastline on the seaward side of the windmill at Panormitis that looks to be covered it flotsam. However, that flotsam is mainly made up of broken glass and crockery, and it is in a very defined area. Here’s a shot the visitor took of it close up.
As you can see from the video clip (in a moment), the stuff isn’t on the shoreline, it’s not on a beach, but some way from the edge of the sea, and not even at sea level. Maybe this is where Poseidon dumps his wine bottles when he’s finished his revelries. Perhaps he goes around scooping up the broken glass from the seabed and dumps it in this one place. Perhaps sailors throw it here when passing? Or could it be all those message-in-a-bottle messages that people throw in the sea hoping they will reach Panormitis (they arrive, are read, and their bottles dare umped here). Maybe someone tidied up the coastline over the last ten years and left it all there for collection in another ten years. It’s not a place where may people go to hang out – unless youngsters go there at night, have parties and leave their bottles behind? You’d have thought the church over the water would have had something to say about that. Unless it’s the church itself, which is not impossible. Anyway. Have a look and listen, have a think, and put your solutions on a postcard to send to the town hall along with a request to have it cleaned up.
