Day 18 - Malta - Comino and the Blue Lagoon

This morning we met at the dock in Sliema to catch the 'Captain Morgan' ferry to the island of Comino. Comino is a very small island (2.5km by 1.5km) between the islands of Malta and Gozo.

On the way there, we passed a movie set for an old Robin Williams movie. I didn't hear what the movie was...so if anyone heard...or knows, please let me know!

THE attraction there is the Blue Lagoon...and 'blue' doesn't even describe it. I would call it turquoise...it's beautiful.

Malta is a very conservative country. Divorce, abortion, and same sex marriage are all illegal and look to stay that way. Much of their culture revolves around the Catholic church - remember there are 331 Catholic Churches and only 400,000 people on the islands! In the Bible in Acts 27-28, it tells of St. Paul being shipwrecked here on his journey to Rome. This was probably in about 60 A.D. Many of the islanders were converted to Christianity during his 3 month stay, making the Maltese people one of the oldest Christian peoples in the world.
The photo on the right is the island where Paul shipwrecked in 60 AD

We had finally been swimming in the Mediterranean and hopefully there weren't too many sunburns being nursed at the end of Day 18.