Els Tres Frares

Els Tres Frares sits on the Mar d'Amunt, the quieter north side of Cap de Creus, on the stretch between Port de la Selva and the park's lighthouse, just short of Cala Culip. Boats moor off a rocky point where the bottom drops into a wall and channel worked between about 20 and 40 metres. The route runs on rock throughout, without the sand or Posidonia patches that soften some of the park's other approaches. There is no shore option here: every dive starts from a boat out of Llançà or Port de la Selva.

The Mar d'Amunt side of the park carries less boat traffic than the Cap Norfeu cluster further south, and this point is reached from Llançà and Port de la Selva, not the Roses or Cadaqués departures that serve the sites to the south. Only two eco-guiding centres are named for this exact point, both based on this side of the peninsula, a narrower choice than the southern sites offer. The guided route also asks more than its "all levels" rating suggests on paper: the working band runs from 20 to 40 metres, deep enough that Advanced Open Water is the realistic entry point.

This is a north-facing point, directly exposed to the Tramuntana, which can leave it undiveable for days when it blows hard. The adjoining cove, Cala Galladera, is marked as a no-anchor sector once the park's delimiting buoys are installed; centre-guided dives already work within that rule, so it matters mainly for a private boat. Confirm the planned depth before you go: published figures for this point range from a 20-40 metre working band to a wider 5-45 metre span, and the deep end of that spread sits outside standard recreational limits. Treat the published coordinates as approximate: they come from a single catalog listing, not a survey.