Boc i la Cabra

Boc i la Cabra works three kinds of ground in one profile: a rock wall, a cave passage partway along it, and a channel, on a route given as roughly 8 to 28 metres. The park's own chart for this stretch reads far wider, from 2 to 42 metres across the surveyed seabed, and marks its own dive point near 16 metres, inside that band; the wider chart describes the general seabed, not a single through-route depth. Red gorgonians line two rock-edge stretches the chart marks near its -27 and -15 metre contours. Damselfish crowd the open water off the wall, while white seabream, common octopus and Mediterranean moray work the rock, and spiny lobster shelter in its crevices.

Two of the six species the park's own briefing sheet illustrates for this point carry a photo credit: the spiny lobster to Cap de Creus Dive, based in Port de la Selva, and the white seabream to Eurodivers, in Roses, the two towns that bracket this stretch of coast. Tagged '(PN)', the park's general zone, Boc i la Cabra also sits outside the three marine Partial Nature Reserves that cover several of its cave and wall neighbours, so the extra rules written for those zones do not apply to this exact point on the sheet's own tagging.

The park counts independent divers by boat here, not by head: with advance notice, a boat's day stops at six dives, its week at thirty, its year at a hundred and twenty.1 The site's own sheet repeats the park's standard eco-rules: no touching or feeding fish, sharks or rays, and 1.5 metres of clearance from the reef, both to the side and on the way down.2 Reached only by boat, with no shore option. Inside the cave passage, carry a torch and hold steady trim clear of the rock.