Cova del Pelegri

A cave mouth at 8 metres opens into a wall that keeps dropping, past a park-marked reference point at 22 metres toward a stated 35 metres on the guided route out of Roses. The rock carries the shift you would expect along that profile: cup coral and nudibranchs work the cave's shaded lip, moray eels hold the crevices, and an octopus is as likely tucked into a crack near the entrance as out on the open wall. Barracuda pass over the deeper rock, and the park's own chart marks gorgonian growth between 26 and 30 metres for divers running the fuller route. No shore route reaches this point: every account of it starts from a boat.

Two species on the park's own species panel need exactly this kind of shelter: the golden cup coral Leptopsammia pruvoti and the nudibranch Flabellina affinis both favour shaded overhangs and cave mouths, and the sheet illustrates them alongside four more species for this exact point. Sotamar frames the cave as one stop inside a broader multi-level dive out of Cadaques, with the entrance at 8 metres; Roses Sub instead runs a dedicated wall route out of Roses, to a maximum of 35 metres.

Access is by boat only, with no shore-entry option at this point. The usual park rules apply throughout: no touching, taking or altering anything living or archaeological, and independent diving needs prior notice to the park authority, capped per boat, not per diver, at six dives a day, thirty a week, one hundred twenty a year. The cave mouth and the wall beyond it are two different dives, not one profile at two depths: neither operator describes swimming from one into the other, so the choice gets made at booking, not underwater.