Old Bauxite Mines

The site sits on the northeast coast of Amorgos at the base of the Mount Kroukelos cliffs, near the northeastern tip of the island's eastern promontory, and opens onto the open Aegean through a wide window from north round to east-southeast, peaking at NE-ENE-E. That exposed arc faces straight into the dominant summer Meltemi (N-NW), so despite the shallow, easy profile this is a weather-dependent dive that gets blown out when the Meltemi is up. The Kroukelos massif to the south and southwest and the north cape to the northwest fully block the S-SW-W-NW sectors, while the long promontory tail trailing away to the southeast shadows the SE-SSE swell, leaving the northeast the only genuinely open quarter.