The rock shelf on the Sliema side of Tigné, along the Qui-si-Sana front. It is a town swim: ladders, flat rock, and the promenade behind you.
Exposed today. The wind is NNW at 15 km/h.
Qui-si-Sana is the stretch of Sliema rock below the gardens of the same name. It is a long shelf of flat limestone with ladders at intervals. The promenade runs behind it. There is no sand and there never has been.
This is a town swim. People come down after work, swim a few hundred metres and walk home. The water is deep close in. Almost everything in Sliema is within a couple of minutes, and the shore is busy from early morning until dark through the summer.
It is sheltered from the south-east round to the north-north-west. There is no open water on those bearings for a wind to build a swell across. It is open to the north round to the east-south-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.
The nearest alternatives, which usually face a different way.
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