A tiny sandy cove on the north coast of Mellieħa, hemmed in by rock. It holds a handful of people and is reached down a short scramble from the road.
Sheltered today. The wind is NNW at 17 km/h.
The cove is barely twenty metres across, wedged between two arms of rock on the Marfa ridge. It holds only a handful of people.
Getting down means leaving the car on the ridge road and picking a way over rough ground for a few minutes. It is a route rather than a path and it is awkward in flip-flops. There is nothing at the bottom, so bring water and something for shade. The reward is that on a day when Għadira is shoulder to shoulder, this is still quiet.
It is sheltered from the west-south-west round to the north-north-east. There is no open water on those bearings for a wind to build a swell across. It is open to the east-north-east to the east, where the sea runs for kilometres before it reaches this shore. A wind out of the north-east and the east-south-east round to the south-west has some water to work with but not the full run.
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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