Es Forcats

Several rock masses break the surface where Cala Jugadora opens onto open water, the outer islets in the eastern chain standing apart from the lower rock at the centre of the group. The park's own dive chart plots two separate mooring buoys here, one at 20 metres and one at 23, each anchoring a different route across the cluster, not two points on the same profile. From the shallower buoy, contour lines climb toward a rock mass cresting at 4 metres; from the deeper one, the ground keeps falling past 30 metres toward a mapped maximum of 40, on the outer, eastern side of the group. Paler gorgonian fans hold the shallower rock, and the red gorgonians that give the deeper chain its colour thicken as the wall nears its printed floor. The park's own eco-briefing sheet for this exact point names six species in total: dusky grouper, conger eel, monkfish and red gorgonian, alongside a yellow tube sponge and the nudibranch that grazes on it.

Es Forcats' own eco-briefing sheet singles out a detail most of the park's other itinerary points do not carry: a named predator-and-prey pairing, not a plain spread of reef regulars. The yellow tube sponge Aplysina aerophoba grows thick enough on this point's rock to support its own dedicated grazer, the nudibranch Tylodina perversa, a species that feeds on that sponge and nothing else; the sheet illustrates both together on the same panel. That specific relationship, more than a generic species checklist, is not the norm even among Cap de Creus's many numbered points.

This point sits inside one of the park's three Partial Nature Reserves, not its general zone: night diving between sunset and sunrise needs special authorisation here, and beginner "bautizo" dives are barred in the no-fishing sectors.1 Confirm current conditions and which of the two routes you will be diving with whoever is running your trip before you book, and keep a shallower backup plan in mind for the day.