Agios Pavlos Cliff and "Caves"

Greece, Crete
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65.6 ft

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Agios Pavlos Cliff and "Caves"

Very good wall dive with small caves/natural rooms under overhangs. Just around the rock, there is a already nice small cave 10m deep the sandy bottom with a few small posidonia patches drops gently from 15m there to maximum 35m as far as I went. It looks like going up from there westward to the next beach. A kind of wide sand valley. On the map, the coast looks like a boot : the heel gap area is nice cove with interesting thin geological layers and a huge rock split in 2 making a small canyon. Seascape is a pretty much a vertical wall dropping to a mostly sandy bottom (I didn't explore away from the wall but it seems to drops gently deeper) Wall is colorful and very rich in life under 12m depth (quite bare above) with some nice overhangs covered with green algea, yellow anemones, sponges, lot of tube worms etc. Lots of small fish in september 2014 : sand smelt, picarels and damsel, parrot fish and tiny groupers. Quite a lot of spearfishermen around. Will go back as soon as possible ! Not sure now which side of the taverna beach I like the most ... West from taverna beach. Shore access by a few minutes snorkeling from the beach (taverna).
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