Punta dels Farallons

The park's own underwater-itinerary sheet for this point, item two of the park's thirty-stop index, is titled "Pta Farallons S (RNP)" and prints the dive's own coordinate, 42.341117 N, 3.260317 E.1 Below it, an elongated reef ridge runs east-west, its crest shoaling to about 10 metres and fringed along its full length by red and pink gorgonians. A marked buoy sits at the ridge's southern edge, the usual starting point; past it, the seabed steps down through 20 and 30 metres to a rocky, sand-flecked base near 40 metres to the south. Barracuda work the open water off the ridge, while dusky grouper, dentex, octopus, white seabream and moray hold closer to the rock, the same six species the sheet illustrates by name for this exact spot.1 The dive sits about 4.7 km east of Port de la Selva, the nearest base port, reached only by boat.

This reef ridge sits inside one of Cap de Creus's three marine Partial Nature Reserves, and it earns its own dedicated species panel rather than a shared area description, a sign of how much resident life the ridge holds.1 Because the crest and its wall sit at such different depths, the same point plays as two distinct dives: a gentle shallow pass for one group, a committing push to the deep base for another, without needing a second site to get both.

Currents are reported as common at this point: check the day's conditions with your guide before working the wall base, using the reef's own marked entry point as your reference. Night diving is off-limits without special authorisation, the standard rule inside any of the park's Partial Nature Reserves, and this point is confirmed to sit inside one.1 The wall's base, near 40 metres, sits well below the area's typical summer thermocline: budget for water closer to 14°C there, even when the surface reads warm.