A pebble bay on the north-east coast of Gozo below Qala, lined with boathouses cut into the rock. It is a working bay rather than a resort.
Exposed today. The wind is NW at 32 km/h.
Boathouses cut into the soft rock line one side of the bay, and most are still in use. The shore is pebble, with a slipway through the middle. It is a fishing bay first and a swimming bay second. It feels very different from Ramla or San Blas a few kilometres west.
The pebbles are large enough to want something on your feet. A kiosk opens in season and a road runs down to the water. Unlike most of the north-east coast of Gozo, there is no walking involved.
It is sheltered from the east-north-east round to the north-west. There is no open water on those bearings for a wind to build a swell across. It is open to the north-north-west round to the north-east, where the sea runs for kilometres before it reaches this shore.
Measured as metres of open water on each bearing out from the shore. This is the bay’s own geography and it does not change; whether it is swimmable this afternoon is the reading at the top of the page, which also weighs how hard the wind is actually blowing.
Struck through means it is not there. Facilities at a Maltese bay are seasonal more often than not, so treat summer as the best case.
The nearest alternatives, which usually face a different way.
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