SKINARIA

​Leaving our diving school to equip ourselves (meeting at 9 a.m.), we drive about 50 minutes towards the south of the island towards Plakias. Plakias is right next to the Preveli palm grove, which is a stunning location. If you have transportation, this is a great opportunity to go there after the activity is finished. Due to the pandemic we strongly encourage our divers and transported guests to follow us with their means of transport. Otherwise we have vans available to get to the site and transport our non-vehicled guests as well as all the necessary equipment. ​ We offer both baptisms and dives for our initiates (possibility of deep dives (38 meters maximum), and the shrimp cellars are really lovely with their skylight and colorful sponges) ​ Fauna and flora: groupers, moray eels, we are starting to be invaded by lion fish, scorpion fish, puffer fish (very friendly and playful!), squid and octopus, colorful wrasses, Mediterranean parrot fish, juvenile barracudas, lobster and sea cicada… Some very beautiful gilthead sea bream parades in the cove! When you are lucky you can observe juvenile rays near the shore, and adults along the drop-off. Nudibranchs, large sponges and colorful crusts.... And we have lots of peacock wrasses to add color and activity! (wrasses are always naughty and playful, and have very pretty colors) ​ DIVERS: We generally offer two successive dives (with a break of around fifty minutes between the two depending on the depths carried out) BAPTIMES: Possibility of doing one or two dives (if you wish to do two dives, let us know so that we bring with us the sufficient number of blocks (air bottles). As we usually finish the diving activity around 1:30 p.m., and everyone is starting to get hungry, we suggest a stop at the local tavern for a bite to eat and refreshment. It’s always very friendly and in Crete for little money you eat very, very well. Return to Rethymnon around 4:30 p.m. when we take our lunch break before hitting the road again.