Wanted: A Beach Day

Greetings! Hope everyone is surviving this crazy Georgia heat and humidity ... All I want to do is sleep. Like my cats.

Or go to the beach. I've decided that one life goal that would be great fun to pursue ... would be to swim in every major body of water on the planet. What you see here is the hike to Red Beach on Santorini, one of the Cyclades Islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea. Red Beach is made of black and red volcanic rocks, and is near the village of Akrotiri, on the south end of the island inside the caldera. The Aegean Sea is a northern arm of the Mediterrean Sea, with the island of Crete forming the geographical division between the two.

To get to Red Beach, you need to park your car ... and walk. Actually, hike. See the little white and red specks that dot the center of the photo? Those are folks headed to the beach. And my friend and I were two of them. You can see umbrellas along the shore to the left. It was magnificant. And the water was cold. Not the warm waters and white sands of Panama City or Gulf Shores or Pensacola, but it is nevertheless a beautiful beach.

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