If you can expand on any of these and clarify the locations and photos, do let the Cap'n know. He'll spin them off into their own entry.

Other Barefoot reporters who visited Ithaca in 1998 say that when they hired a boat in Ikon [?Kioni] and headed out of the harbour - take a right (south) towards the island's capital, Vathi, they found around 6 beaches - some small, nothing more than 200 metres wide, where they were able to sunbathe and swim naked all day, even though this was in the absolute peak season - first two weeks of August. The swimming and snorkelling were fantastic and the sea conditions - apart from one late afternoon out of 13 days - really calm. The other amazing thing was that even though it was peak, for 80 % of the time they had the beaches to themselves - to the point that on the first couple of days, they did idly wonder if they were in some sort of restricted zone! Other people that turned up either only stayed for lunch or a swim, or if longer, quite often went naked as well.

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Other nudism was very possible - very easy to find a remote beach in September, and this was by hire car. This however would need to be diplomatic and careful - this island is still very friendly and undeveloped for mass tourism, and nobody gains if the local residents are outraged. My reporters felt more comfortable at Sarakiniko where it was not necessary to keep an eye open for causing offence.

Earlier reporters tried the other direction, north from Kioni towards Frikes, and although there was absolutely no problem stripping off, they preferred the stretch between Kioni and Vathi since they didn't have to listen to the interminable noise from Italian jetskis all day. As with all boat hire (and there was no way that you could have reached any of the beaches on foot or by road) the drawback is that usually you have to return the boat to harbour by 6 pm, which means that if you're a real sun worshipper, you have to console yourself with being clothed for the last couple of hours on a beach closer to home! At Kioni, that's not such a big drawback, especially as you can go to the same beach within the Kioni harbour early in the morning, i.e. as the sun comes up, and sunbathe/swim nude - if there's anyone around at that time, they are either too unawake to notice, or don't care! The beaches we found had no facilities but occasional shade if you really wanted it.

2005: A report found no possibility of nudism at Kioni or Marmaka.

2012: Lot of beaches just for us. Just great!!!

2013: We found no opportunities for nudism in the beaches we could reach by hire car and we travelled the length of the island.

2017: We went to Ithaca with the family and unfortunately we didn't find any beach were nudism/naturism was accepted. On the other hand, if you hire a small boat you can sail around this little island and find one of those small coves where no-one but you will be there and enjoy skinny dipping.