Malta: Gozo, Marsalforn
After the summer we decide on another short trip so we looked towards the Mediterranean and there we found Gozo. We flew to Malta where we have the beautiful city of Valetta (I had been to Valetta many time when I worked on a cruise ship). We jumped in a minivan and raced to the other end of the island to catch the ferry for Gozo and went by taxi until we reached Marsalforn where we would be staying. We had a nice apartment close to the city so we had a good dinner and did some shopping for food before getting our gear ready for diving.
We dived with Calypso divers, a company who had been there for many years, and did our first dive the next day. There are mostly shore dives and the diving is not for people with weak knees or legs. Diving in Gozo is interesting with caves, grottos and underwater cathedrals, to enter the cathedrals you have to dive down several meters, go under the rock and come up on the inside where there is a big cavern waiting to be explored (spooky). On this trip we dived: Ayer rock, Reqqa point, the Blue Hole, Coral cave, Cathedral cave, Billinghurst cave, Mgarr ix-Xini, and Xatt l-Ahmar. The diving was interesting but we did not see a whole lot of fish, as it seemed quite fished out. We did see: seahorses, peacock flounders, octopus, tuna, flying guernard, lobsters, crabs and a few nudibranch.
It a bit fun diving here with the caves and especially the Blue Hole, we jumped into the center of of the hole and sank down slowly to about 10 meters or so where you could see beautiful shades of blue all around us and many small creatures. We exited through a hole in the bottom and swam out to to explore, on the return to the blue hole we swam under a large archway that soared 20 to 30 meters into the sky, when we return into the hole there seemed to be even more shades of blue as we surfaced. We did not any sightseeing on the island other that when we were driving to the dive site, when not diving we layed by the seaside working on our tan and swimming in the clear water in the harbour area. In the evening we ate at various restaurants, took leisurely walks and watched the stars. Being a short trip it was time to head home and start planning another long trip.
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