A field guide to the Kriopigi shore.

A living archive

Where pine forest meets a wine-dark sea.

Kriopigi, "cold spring", sits on the eastern Kassandra coast, on the Toronean Gulf, a crescent of fine sand under Aleppo pines, looking out over what Homer called the oînops póntos, the wine-dark sea. This guide gathers what locals, scientists, and travelers have learned of its tides, meadows, and migrants.