Wied Musa is one of several small rocky bays along the north side of the Marfa ridge. You reach it down a track off the ridge road, which is poorly signed. It is rock the whole way and the entry is off a ledge.
There is nothing here at all, which is the appeal: on a good day you can have it to yourself twenty minutes from Għadira. Only a north-easterly reaches it with any force. Bring water, bring shade, and take everything home with you.
You will want a car for this oneThe bus does not come close, and the last stretch is a track rather than a road.
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Which winds this bay can take
It is sheltered from the east-north-east round to the west-north-west. There is no open water on those bearings for a wind to build a swell across. It is open to the north-east, where the sea runs for kilometres before it reaches this shore. A wind out of the north-west round to the north-north-east has some water to work with but not the full run.
- NPart open
- NNEPart open
- NEOpen sea
- ENESheltered
- ESheltered
- ESESheltered
- SESheltered
- SSESheltered
- SSheltered
- SSWSheltered
- SWSheltered
- WSWSheltered
- WSheltered
- WNWSheltered
- NWPart open
- NNWPart open
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.
