- παράθυρο
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- παλίρροια
- Even at springs the band out to five metres stays 980 m wide. If anything changes the level at Bari, it is pressure and wind, not the moon. If you go into a channel, go in against the current and come back with it.
- καταφύγιο
- The coast here runs E–W and opens to the southeast: that is what decides which forecast to read. In a bay like this the shelter is a few tens of metres wide, tucked against the windward point rather than in the middle of the arc, and in a hard Scirocco not even that. At Bari the old rule holds: watch the sea for ten minutes, then decide. Dead swell from the southeast arrives under a clear sky and no wind at all.
- συνθήκες
- The bottom here is measured and not narrated: the contours come from the EMODnet survey. The ground is long: the 20 m contour sits about 1700 m from the shore and the 10 m contour 1100 m.
- κίνδυνος
- On the shoreline at Bari the same national rules apply without discounts: breath-hold, daylight, marker in sight. In a cove the risk is the false calm: from inside you cannot see that the sea outside has built. With Scirocco building, the window shuts sooner than the forecast says.
- πρόσβαση
- In the bay you pick the sheltered side to get in and the same side to get out. Fix a landmark ashore in your head: from out there the coast changes face.
The two small coves just south-east of the Torre a Mare harbour: low slabs, cobbles and posidonia twenty metres out, usually 2–8 m. Entry down the path at the end of Via dei Trulli. Honest, readable ground — the right choice when the tramontana shuts the northern stretch.
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