Greek Caribbean: the naturist beach of PIKPA - Athens Riviera, Voula Greece | 4K snorkeling
Feel an exotic experience! Explore the magical beach of PIKPA in Voula, at the riviera of Athens, Greece!
Unique moments, while swimming and practicing snorkeling under the crystal clear blue waters of Greece.
PIKPA beach is located only 20 kilometers south of Athens center, in Voula. A luxurious suburb of the Greek capital, an ideal resort for enjoying the beauty of Greek summer.
This is the closest naturist and nudist beach to Athens center. A relaxed paradise.
The Greek government has decided to allow a big investment at the site to take place and during the construction progress the access to this beach will not be allow. This is unacceptable. Every citizen has the right to free access at the coast and enjoy the sea water.
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Here’s our guide to getting the most out of your snorkeling.
Snorkeling is often an underrated activity. For many travelers in tropic destinations, it’s presented as something anyone can do, and often involves plowing through the surface with rental gear and a swim vest on. But snorkeling can be so much more!
In fact, modern scuba diving grew out of snorkeling, or skin diving as it was known then.
Snorkeling can be a very rewarding activity. It benefits from its simplicity, where you can simply grab a mask and some fins, rather than hauling a bag full of heavy scuba gear. This also allows for more flexibility, allowing you to bring your gear on trips where bringing tons of scuba gear isn’t a possibility. And the lack of bubbles means you can often get closer to marine wildlife than with scuba gear on.
Preparation.
To really make the most of your next snorkeling trip, and leave the newbies in your wake, a bit of preparation is helpful.
Improve your swimming.
If your swimming skills aren’t the best, take some swimming lessons at your local pool. And even if you’re a decent swimmer, becoming an even better swimmer will only benefit you in the water.
Focus in particular on the freestyle, as the kicking technique from that style is the one you’ll be using when snorkeling. Being a strong swimmer will also allow you to ditch the swim vest that are often popular with snorkeling outfits.
While a snorkeling vest helps you with flotation, it will also hinder your movements in the water. And make it harder, if not impossible, to do dives to check out a reef or fish.
Good swimming skills will help keep you safe in the water.
Practice.
Swimming is one thing – Swimming with fins on is something else entirely.
The extra drag and weight of the fins put extra toll on the muscles, which is why you might experienced cramping up if you’re not used to swimming with fins.
So take a pair of fins to the local pool, or your home waters, and do laps with them on.
Mix it up, so you do both long stretches at a mid-level pace, and shorter, faster stretches.
Improve your breath hold.
Many snorkelers simply stay at the surface, and use the snorkel to breathe while looking down.
A number of more advanced snorkelers, though, move into skin diving territory by doing occasional dives below the surface while holding their breath.
This will allow you to get a much closer look of the marine wildlife, and you’ll explore reefs and other underwater features up close.
To maximize your time underwater, you can train your breath holding capacity, as well as your swimming efficiency.
For more experience hit up your local freediving club for hands on training and practice. With the growing popularity of freediving, these are becoming increasingly easy to find.
Conserving Energy While Snorkeling
Going for a leisurely swim in tropical waters may not sound like serious exercise, but make no mistake, snorkeling can take it out of you! Even in very warm water, your body loses heat continuously, due to water’s heat capacity being greater than air’s.
And propelling yourself forward with fins on requires some energy as well.
Add to this that snorkeling trips can be all-day things, with hours spent in the water, and you can see why thinking about keeping your energy expenditure down is useful!
As with scuba diving, remember to slow down, relax, and let your fins do the work for you.
Many new snorkelers have a tendency to try and swim along using their arms, like they’d do in a pool. But our legs, in particular with fins on, outperform our arms many times over. So a good way to conserve energy is to keep our arms relaxed at our sides and focus on our fins instead.
And don’t kick too hard, even a leisurely kicking pace is enough to drive you forward, and moving too fast just means you’ll zoom by interesting sights.
Plus, kicking too hard and flailing with your arms creates a lot of splashing that will scare away the very animals you’re there to see!
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