Once upon a time there was such a strong wind that it shook the sea from the bottom and the sea brought out a snake. A cloud fell and threw the snake on the mountain of Sopot. The giant snake ate animals and people and destroyed crops. Until an old man got up, loaded a donkey with sacks of straw and went near the cistern and set the straw on fire. When the snake ate the donkey, the fire inside burned him. The beast shouted, ‘Where are you sea that made my head and you river, my brother…!’ He then lay down to die.
The sea started from Vivari and the river from Sopot, but they could not reach it. In the agony of death, the snake slammed its tail against the mountainside, where visible marks remained. Since that time, the sea and the mountain are connected to each other like father and son”
In October 2002, the beauty of “mother nature” was in the agony of death. Everyone was sorry, but that’s all.
Coincidentally, just when the leaders of Leche came to Albania to talk about the Blue Eye, he became exhausted and turned into a blind, white eye. Many people in Saranda believed it was the finger of God.
“It was punishment for those who wanted to sell it“, they whispered.
“For four days, the water of the Blue Eye fought with the river that dropped stones and gravel from above“, said the elderly.
