Many people are delighted by the beauty of underwater scenery viewed whilst snorkelling. However, only scuba divers see the underwater wonders of Menorca’s fabulous marine caverns and grottoes. From mere holes to the incomparable majesty of "Cathedral cavern" at Cap d’en Font, whose entrance archway is 600 ft high and about 40 ft wide, the whole cavern being filled with a soft turquoise light.

Several caves, such a Na Pulida on the north coast, Cap d’en Gil to the west or "Tom’s Belfry" and the S’Algar Funnel on the south east coast hide superb stalagmites and stalactites glinting in gentle tones of ivory, chestnut and ebony as you surface deep within the heart of the grotto. Some of these petrified columns are submerged by up to 16 metres and are dated at around 6.000.000 years old.

The majority of caves, however, are completely submerged, though this does not mean that they are dark. A great favourite with divers are the "Coral galleries" at the Isla del Aire near S’Algar. Part of the Marine Reserve project, they are in a completely hollow reef on three distinct levels. So much sunlight enters that the whole of the ceiling and walls are covered in fragile corals like lovely ‘mermaids veil’. As well as sturdy scarlet and yellow star corals, bright orange or red sponges and stunning fluorescent yellow colonies of miniature anemones.

There are no less then eight good size caverns and innumerable smaller ones on the Isla del Aire alone. As well as the more usual reef and wall dives, divers from S’Algar regularly visit over 30 marine caverns and grottoes, often more than one on a single dive. The soft limestone in the general S’Algar area is especially suitable for the formation of these fascinating caverns. So why not discover the secret of Menorca? Full tuition by professionals available for those who wish to learn to dive.