Snorkelling Cala Higuera Cabo de Gata

Cala Higuera (Fig Tree Cove?) is a VERY sheltered cove less than 2kms from San Jose. There are a couple of rocky beaches and in practice the Northern of the two beaches gets the most usage. Because it is sheltered by the mountain to the North it can be calm in Higuera when all other nearby beaches are suffering from heavy surf. This makes it particularily good for snorkelling. The northern beach only has a very few comfortable flat spots to place your bum, so if it is busy you are going to have to sit on the rocks and pebbles. There always seem to be at least one nudist on the beach and more often a few of them. As with all the non-town beaches in Cabo de Gata, the nudists and non nudists seem to be perfectly happy co-existing on the same beaches. You will see the dismasted yacht in the video. There was a fierce storm on 24 Aug 2007 which sank a number of small boats moored off San Jose harbour and also wrecked the floating bathing platform. This particular yacht broke it moorings off Higuera and floated off to the beach in San Jose just below El Pirata bar (brilliant burgers). I watched its final moments in the storm before it washed ashore near some rocks and got involved with the operation to use a jeep to drag it to safety further up the beach. Apparently some RIBs were used to drag it back out to sea over the shallow sandy bottom.

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It still needs fixing up. The original rescue operation pulled off the two forward mooring kleats.

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