Ruta submarina Racó de l’Illot (buceo)

The route begins to the right of the parking platform of theCala del Moraig, where we have the entrance to a cave, following some stairs. We can equip ourselves outside and with fins in hand enter carefully, finding after a few meters a hole or pool about 3 meters in diameter, where the immersion begins.

We drop into the mouth of the pool and descend vertically about -5 meters, to a rocky bottom that expands with respect to the entrance. From there, kneeling we will see the only exit from the pool, where the light from the open sea comes from. We will go to the exit having to go through a narrow cat flap about 1 meter high and several meters wide. If there had been a swell in the previous days, it could be lower due to the accumulation of sand.

After traveling a short distance – about 25 meters in which we never lose the light from the exit – we reach the open sea where we follow the wall on the right, heading S. Here the bottom is dotted with rocks, with lots of posidonia patches and sandy clearings. After a journey of about 10 minutes, the wall enters the mountain, heading W, and we almost certainly find a thermocline resulting from the union of fresh and salt water.

If we ascend we will see that we are in a beautiful and large cave, inside the mountain, where light enters through the holes it leaves in the ceiling. From here another cave begins that we should not enter because it is a long underwater river,Riu del Moraig, of great difficulty that should only be accessed by specially trained divers who know the route.

The return will consist of following the reverse path - wall now on the left - until we find the entrance to the cathole through which we came, ascending again through the chimney of the pool to the surface, or exit along the beach, which is a little further ahead.

Throughout the route there are possible encounters with moray eels, octopuses, thrushes and schools of bream and salps in seabeds of abundant and luminous posidonia.