Vodnjak (Kampanel)

Sitting on the outer, seaward face of Mali Vodnjak — the westernmost islet of the Pakleni chain — this west-facing wall is fully open across the whole western Adriatic arc, from SW through W to NW and on round to N. Its swell window is that open west quadrant; the islet body and the rest of the Pakleni archipelago to the east block the E and SE sectors, so the Jugo (Sirocco, from the SE) reaches the site as wind and surface chop rather than clean swell, and the offshore Bura (from the NE) brings fierce surface wind off the mainland but little fetch on this seaward side. Dives are cancelled less by focused SE groundswell than by the plain exposure of the open crossing and the west quadrant; that same open exposure is what keeps the water clear and the gorgonians brightly coloured.