Underwater tour Racó de l'Illot (diving)

The route starts at the right of the Cala del Moraig, where we will find the entrance to a cave, following some steps. We can put our gear on outside and carry our flippers, going in carefully where after a few metres we will find a hole or pond of about 3 metres in diameter which is where we will start our dive.

We will drop into the mouth of the pond and go down vertically some -5 metres, to a rock bottom which spreads out with regard to the entrance. From there, kneeing down, we will see the only exit from the pond, where the light of the open sea is visible. We will go towards the exit and will have to pass through a narrow gatera or chock that is about 1 metre high and several metres wide. If there has been a groundswell in the past few days, this might not be so high because of the accumulation of sand.

After swimming a short distance - some 25 metres where we will never lose sight of the light of the exit - we will reach the open sea, where we will follow the wall on the right, S. course. Here the bed is speckled with rock with numerous stains of Posidonia and sand clearings. After going along for about 10 minutes, the wall goes into the mountain, W. course, and we will almost definitely find a thermocline caused by the fresh water and salt water meeting.

If we go up, we will find we are at a lovely, big cave, inside the mountain, where light enters from the cavities which this leaves on the ceiling. From here another cave starts, which we should not go in because this is a long and very difficult underwater river, Riu del Moraig, which only specially prepared divers who know the route should enter.

The return will consist of following the route in reverse order - the wall now on our left - until we get to the entrance to the gatera by which we came in, again going up the chimney of the pool to the surface, or else coming out on the beach, which is a bit farther along.

Throughout the route it is possible to find moray eels, octopus, wrasses and shoals of cow breams and sargos on a sea bed of abundant and luminous Posidonia.

Characteristics

Type: diving

Level: **/medium

Access: coast

Maximum depth: -13m

Approximate duration: 45 minutes

Presence cave

Torch: yes