El Salpatxot
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About this site
El Salpatxot is one of the dive sites around the Medes Islands, a small archipelago off L'Estartit on the Costa Brava in Girona province, Catalonia. The islands and surrounding waters form a protected marine reserve, reached by short boat trips from L'Estartit harbor. The site sits over a reef bottom with a maximum depth of about 24 metres and is rated a beginner dive. Divers have reported grouper, octopus, Mediterranean and common moray eels, and red scorpionfish around the reef, along with Mediterranean rainbow wrasse and patches of red coral and violescent sea-whip on the rock. Smaller finds such as cratena slugs, leopard sea slugs, and violet aeolids have also been noted here by divers looking closely at the reef walls.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
Moray eelMoray eelReported here · unconfirmed
OctopusOctopusReported here · unconfirmed
GrouperGrouperReported here · unconfirmed
Violescent Sea-whipParamuricea clavataReported here · unconfirmed
Cratena SlugCratena peregrinaReported here · unconfirmed
Mediterranean MorayMuraena helenaReported here · unconfirmed
Leopard Sea SlugPeltodoris atromaculataReported here · unconfirmed
Mediterranean Red CoralCorallium rubrumReported here · unconfirmed
Mediterranean Rainbow WrasseCoris julisReported here · unconfirmed
Mediterranean Violet AeolidFlabellina affinisReported here · unconfirmed
Red ScorpionfishScorpaena scrofaReported here · unconfirmed
Ringneck BlennyParablennius pilicornisObserved near here · iNaturalist
Ornate WrasseThalassoma pavoObserved near here · iNaturalist
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