
Binidali Gorgonian Garden
Menorca · Spain
A sheltered eastern bay containing one of Menorca's most accessible and intact posidonia-to-gorgonian transition dives: Neptune grass stretches to 15 metres before giving way to sloping rock encrusted with yellow sea fans, red coral nubbins, and dense sponge communities. Sea horses hide in the grass blades and nudibranch diversity peaks here in spring, with the protected bay holding calm conditions long after the south coast is stirred up.
Conditions
Depth
5 to 25 m
Open water and up
Current
Variable
Can pick up on the edge
Visibility
20 to 30 m
Clearest in the calm season
Water
13 to 27°C
3mm wetsuit
Your chances of seeing each animal
Long-snouted seahorse
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
Noble pen shell
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
Yellow gorgonian
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
Flabellina nudibranch
Rare
Now and then
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