The beach of Almyros, next to the aquatic niche of Almyros. One of the few on Crete, this niche is of great importance and beauty. Near the town of Agios Nikolaos next to the road leading to Sitia and Ierapetra, with an estimated size of 150 000 sq meters. A stream with a depth varying between 1 to 5 meters formed by interspersed springs flows through the niche. Eucalyptus growing along the road offer a cooling shadow.

Rich in flora and fauna, with marshes, reed beds and morasses. Its stagnant and running sweet waters combine with the sea waters thus becoming brackish.

It is a place of high fish production and a stop for the birds of passage which not only rest and find food here but also nest and reproduce themselves before continuing their voyage.

In the last years some 80 species of birds have been observed. Some are migrant and some live here permanently.

Herons, hoopoes, wild ducks, wild geese, black ducks and a multitude of other birds as well as a striped grey mullet, the eel and the tortoise are characteristic for the fauna while the rush, the lentisk, the eucalyptus and the reeds characterize the flora. During winter the tortoises hide themselves in the bulrush of this aquatic niche and in the summer they come out and lay their eggs in the sand near the reeds. On the beach one can find lots of shells belonging to two major categories.

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