Shipwreck Heaven

This is the one and only.... Navagio Beach (Greek: Ναυάγιο),  or Shipwreck Beach or even Smuggler's Cove. Whatever you want to call it.. I call it HEAVEN!    It's located on the northwest shore (near Anafortiria Village) of Zakynthos, in the Ionian Islands of Greece. 

The island was previously known as Agios Georgios, until the early 1980s when a freightliner named Panagiotis, smuggling cigarettes, wine, woman and other contraband crashed into it's shores.  Apparently, the ship was being pursued by authorities in stormy weather which contributed to it's demise.  As the ship was abandoned, it remains snuggled in the cove's white sand, just waiting to pose for another photograph.  The small cove is surrounded by limestone cliffs, crystal clear blue waters and a white sand beach.  It is a major tourist attraction.  Thousands of tourist board tiny ships (even glass bottom boats) to visit this cove as it's only accessible by boat.  

 

 

 

 

 

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