Cova dels Arcs (Cala Moraig)

Cova dels Arcs sits on a SE/E-facing cliff coast between Moraira and Jávea, its arches opening toward the open Mediterranean roughly to the ESE. The high Benitatxell massif behind it fully blocks the W-NW-SW sectors — the offshore Mistral/Tramuntana winds that dominate the region blow off the land here and generate little wave energy at the site. The exposed window is the E-SE quadrant: an onshore easterly Llevant, blowing straight into the cove with open fetch, is the defining hazard and builds surge in the cave mouth, with Scirocco SE swell also reaching in. To the N and NE the Cabo de la Nao headland provides partial shelter, so the site is calmest under the prevailing offshore and northerly winds and roughest in a sustained easterly.