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Evan Fournier is spending the offseason the way the Aegean was meant to be consumed: island by island, cliff by cliff, in bright strips of white rock and azure waters.

The star Olympiacos BC guard, whose summer travels had already taken him to tiny Polyaigos and Kimolos, surfaced on Milos, where a social media post by his wife, Laura Fournier, showed the French international launching himself from the sculpted rocks of Sarakiniko, the island’s most recognizable natural landmark.

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Sarakiniko is not a beach in the conventional Cycladic sense. Located on the north coast of Milos, a short drive from the port of Adamas, it is a sweep of chalk-white volcanic rock carved by wind and sea into smooth ridges, hollows and ledges that spill into translucent water. Its lunar appearance has made it one of the most photographed sites in the Cyclades and one of the island’s defining images, a place that looks less like a cove than a fragment of another planet dropped into the Aegean.

In recent years, Milos itself has become one of the most sought-after islands in the Cyclades — prized for its volcanic coastline, fishing villages and beaches, but also increasingly strained by the pressures of tourism and development.

For Fournier, the stop on Milos comes after a season in which he became one of Olympiacos’ marquee names. The 32-year-old was a central figure in the Piraeus club’s EuroLeague championship and helped anchor its backcourt with scoring output and shot creation, including the Final Four run in which Olympiacos captured the continental title and Fournier was named Final Four MVP.

For now, though, the Frenchman appears to have traded the roar of packed arenas for the quieter life of the Cyclades: bare rockfaces, deep waters and another postcard stop on an island-hopping Greek summer.

The Instagram story was uploaded by his wife, Laura Fournier.