Morro de Toix

The site sits on the seaward SE face of the Morro de Toix point, with the headland's mountain mass and the Sierra de Bernia rising immediately to the N-NW-W, which fully blocks that whole quadrant — conveniently the direction of the offshore Mistral/Tramuntana, which blows off the land here anyway. The open window is E through S: the Mediterranean fetch to the E and SE is wide open, so a Llevant (Levante, easterly) blow is what builds surface chop and swell on this face, with the SE Scirocco quadrant also exposed. To the SW the coast wraps toward Altea bay and the distant Sierra Helada, giving partial shelter, and there is no true ocean swell in this basin — sea state is wind-driven over local fetch. Being tucked behind the headland, the site is workable in most conditions except a sustained easterly.