Barcadera has the narrowest entry on the west coast: a cleft cut into the rocky shore, just wide enough for one diver at a time. Behind it lies a quiet slope running to thirty-five metres. The cleft decides whether the dive goes ahead.
Barcadera is an advanced shore dive on the west coast: an entry through a narrow cut cleft, a reef top at five to seven metres and a slope to thirty-five metres.
Beyond the cleft a sand strip to a reef top at five to seven metres with finger coral and sea fans. The slope drops gently to thirty-five metres with sponges. Plenty of juvenile fish in the shallow zone; turtles regularly on the slope.
In flat water. The cleft is narrow and in swell you are pushed through it; another site is then wiser.
One diver fits through the cleft at a time, so with a group you queue. In swell you scrape past the rock. Small car park, no shade, no water, no toilet.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
The name means landing place: a small loading point for boats once stood here. Further along the same coast lies the modern harbour of the same name, where the fuel and containers come in.
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