Scoglio Rosso

A rock wall on Ponza's southeast flank, just outside the port below Punta della Madonna and the Grotte di Pilato, opening to the Tyrrhenian across an E-ESE-SE window. The main island mass and the Punta della Madonna headland block the W, NW, and N (the Mistral and Tramontana never reach the wall), and the southern part of the island toward Punta della Guardia shadows the S and SW, so a Libeccio from the SW is almost entirely cut off. Its real exposure is the Scirocco out of the SE, which has the longest Mediterranean fetch and pushes wind waves straight onto this open face.