Why is the sea so blue in Cyprus? and indeed the Mediterranean Sea?

It is lacking in a number of nutrients that lead to plant growth.
Which is why there is very little life.

I rather like the explanation that Aphrodite chose to have blue sea as it was to be her home.

[bkb in the city]

Beautiful seascape

[Peter Dulis]

nice

[KWind]

Gorgeous water colours!

[Yao RL]

Love the foreground.

[Boxplayer]

Oh so beautiful, but so lifeless.

[Wylie]

It is a lovely colour.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful shot and so inviting looking.

[*lynn]

so beautiful