Cala Sardina

Cala Sardina sits on Cap de Creus's Mar d'Amunt shore, one of the natural park's own underwater itinerary points, reached by boat from Llançà or Port de la Selva. The park's own chart traces a channel-like bottom between 2 and 18 metres close to shore, then steps down past the -20 metre line to a wall reaching 40 metres, where a cluster of gorgonians grows between 20 and 28 metres around the chart's single marked mooring point, at 23 metres.1

Dusky grouper, red gorgonians and red coral headline six species the park's own itinerary sheet illustrates for this exact point:1 yellowmouth barracuda, common dentex and greater amberjack round out the panel, working the open water off the rock. Protection matches the billing: touching, fishing or removing anything is barred throughout the point, and red coral colonies like these may only legally be harvested under license elsewhere on this coast.

This point sits inside one of the park's marine Partial Natural Reserves, and its own sheet repeats the standard no-touching, no-fishing and no-spearfishing icons for the spot.1 Night diving here needs special authorisation, and entry-level scuba courses are not run in its no-fishing sectors.2 The eco-route registry rates the whole point "all levels" on its own page, a label that sits oddly against a wall option running past 30 metres: treat it as a catalog tag, not a substitute for knowing your own certification limit.