On the final day of hiking Tom took a boat around the nearby island of Palmaria with Ben and The Runners, checking out the abandoned marble quarries there, and went ashore for a hike on the island. Patti also took a boat ride, across the Gulf of Poets (where Shelley drowned), to Lerici, for some hiking and sightseeing. Back in Portovenere, before dinner we gathered on the dock for group portraits. Loudspeakers had been advertising a candidate for the new European parliament, and he volunteered to be our photographer. He didn't seem too upset that none of us could vote in the election.