The visitor beach is a two hundred metre stretch on the east side, reached by the path behind the sports ground, about seven minutes from the jetty.
What is there: a planted screen and a fence along the landward side, two changing rooms, two showers with fresh water, six shaded platforms, bins that are emptied twice a day in high season, and a sign in four languages at each entrance.
What the arrangement is. On that beach, dress is a matter for the visitor. Everywhere else on the island, including the roads, the jetty, the shops and the harbour side, shoulders and knees are covered. This is a village where people live and where children walk to school, and it is the one arrangement the council will not reopen.
Guesthouses are given a printed card for every room, in English, Italian, German and Russian, with a map showing the path. The visitor desk at the jetty gives the same card to anybody arriving.
The beach is cleaned by the council every morning at seven. Alcohol is not sold or permitted anywhere on this island, and that includes the visitor beach, which the desk explains to people before they walk over rather than afterwards.
Residents use the beach too, and are asked to keep to the north end, which was the residents' own suggestion at the meeting.