Greek Island of Kos

We joined family from London and Delhi on the Greek island of Kos. Just under 40,000 people live on Greece’s third largest island. We all stayed at Mitsis Blue Domes resort.

Beaches And Shorelines

Driving around the island, we stopped at Paradise Beach, a beach with snack huts, cocktail bars, clean sand and crystal-blue water. An interesting feature of one part of the beach: bubbles. Volcanic activity causes gas to seep through the ocean floor, visible as tiny bubbles in the shallows.

For some reason, we only captured a selfie at this Kefalos Bay stop.

The blue water bordered by even bluer water looked so inviting!

Much of Kos’ coastline has high rocky “hills” that fall into the ocean rather than gentle grades into the water. The beaches do offer long stretches of flat sand, but we only found a dozen or so around the entire island.

The small villages on and near the beaches offer great spots for quick, delicious seafood. Seems like every place has a decommissioned boat out front.

Protected Waters

On the eastern side of the island, we came across this “beach”, with its manmade jetty to ensure calm waters. You can see the row of beach umbrellas on the left side of the photo, for scale.