Gozo · West Gozo
Dwejra
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The Inland Sea, the Blue Hole and Fungus Rock, on Gozo's west coast — spectacular, and only approachable when it is genuinely calm.
Dwejra is the most dramatic stretch of coast in the islands: a flooded sinkhole connected to the open sea by a tunnel through the cliff, a vertical dive site alongside it, and Fungus Rock standing off the entrance to the bay.
The Azure Window is gone. It collapsed into the sea during a storm in March 2017, and nothing remains above water. Anyone still selling you a trip to see it is selling you something that has not existed for nine years. What is there is the rock underneath, which has become a dive site in its own right.
This is a fair-weather-only coast, and the caveat is not a formality. It faces west, it is completely open, and there is deep water and hard rock with nothing in between. In anything other than settled conditions the sensible answer is that it is not on today.
Getting it right
- Getting there
- Road access to the Inland Sea and the car park at Dwejra Bay.
- When
- Settled weather only, and settled means settled.
- How busy
- Busy on land, quiet on the water.
- Shape of the day
- The far side of Gozo. Realistically a Gozo-based trip rather than a day out of Malta.
Where it is
Sailing here
We do not yet list boats berthed near Dwejra. Every boat we carry is on one page, and any skippered charter will discuss a route.
Also on Gozo
- Mġarr ix-XiniA narrow creek at the foot of a steep valley on Gozo's south coast — sheltered, deep, and the best swimming water in the islands.
- Ramla BayThe red-sand bay on Gozo's north coast — the largest beach in the islands and, from seaward, the most recognisable.
- San Blas BayRamla's smaller neighbour — the same red sand, a punishing walk down, and almost nobody on it.
- Xlendi BayA narrow inlet on Gozo's south-west coast with a village at the head of it — restaurants on the water and a wall of cliff on either side.