The town beach here is the island's nudist beach! It is the one south of Magazia, known locally as Tou Papa to Homa. It is not unusual for lectures from the Skyros Centre to take place here. The beach is situated under the huge rock on which Skyros Town is situated. It is very scenic and I had thought well worth a visit. The only way to go to the beach was by taking steep paths on the left and right edge of the beach. It is 100% nudist and with regulars.

It is a beautiful and quiet naturist beach with long and clean sand. There also is a cave and some rocks.

The Captain is assured that earlier reports about sewage outflow through the beach are no longer accurate, if they ever were. Not only is the beach entirely nudist, Barefoot reports argue that it is also consistently the best beach on the island, nude or textile!

2000: A contributor visited this beach several times while a participant in a Skyros Centre programme. The beach is beautiful and uncrowded, mostly nude [98%, I'd say] but with the odd (local) textile here and there. The water was too cold for anything but a quick dip on the days my contributor tried it.

2005: During July there were never more than five or six people on it. The water is very clear and both the water and the beach are far cleaner than any other beach on the island.

Another Barefoot reporter tells me that the sewage line mentioned is not the problem, the problem is the small brook in the main beach, in Magazia, where a lot of sewers from the village end up. The main beach was deemed unsuitable for swimming by the EU because of that and no plans for biological cleaning have been implemented yet (certainly not this summer). So when the wind blows north-northeast then the nudist beach might be affected, but the EU report claims that the beach is suitable. My contributor rates this beach one of the best beaches anywhere.