Snorkeling at Cala Reona (Cabo de Palos)

We are at the gateway to the natural area of Calblanque Regional Park, located between Cabo de Palos and Portmán, an environment rich in biodiversity that is even more spectacular beneath the water’s surface.

We enter the water from the right-hand side and encounter a seabed scattered with rocks that gradually transforms into a rocky platform teeming with marine life, including gobies, ornate wrasse (Thalassoma pavo), and wrasses.

We will follow the rocky wall, which remains on our right, while beyond the rocky area lies a wide sandy seabed. Here, one particularly striking feature is a series of horseshoe-shaped structures resembling clamps from large pipelines.

The best route follows the rocky zone, where reefs and rocky tongues extend from the wall and descend beyond four metres in depth, while the shallower sections rise almost to the surface.

Marine life is both abundant and diverse: schools of seabream shelter beneath rocky ledges, groups of salema porgies feed over Posidonia oceanica and Cymodocea nodosa meadows, while clouds of damselfish, mullet and even the occasional small grouper fill the waters.

Upon reaching an indentation in the coastline, we discover the impressive entrance of a sea cave whose walls plunge vertically and merge with vast submerged rocky platforms marked by clearly visible geological strata. The seabed here is covered with slate slabs, a mineral particularly abundant along this stretch of coastline.

On the return journey, we can weave our way among the many large rocks that line the route back to the starting point.