Pointe Saint-François

Pointe Saint-François sits on the granite headland that forms the western shoulder of the Gulf of Calvi, on the seaward NW-facing side below the citadel. The exposed window is the open Ligurian Sea across the N-NNE-NE arc and the NW-NNW that the point directly faces, so northerly and NW wind-waves (Mistral/Libeccio building over the open sea) are the dominant exposure. Landward, the mainland, town and citadel headland close off the whole E-through-S sector at short fetch, and the Revellata peninsula extending west shadows the WNW-W approach, so those sectors are largely blocked or diffracted. As a microtidal Mediterranean coastal site there is no real ocean swell and negligible current; conditions are governed by these regional winds, and the shallow rocky shelf can get surgy when the north or NW wind is up.