La Burrera has a well-deserved reputation as one of the best dives in the Canary Islands. This place is spectacular for its labyrinthine landscape, featuring large rocks, arches, columns, and ledges, as well as the abundant marine life it hosts, both in terms of fauna and flora.
It is one of the few places in the archipelago where the kelp forest has survived without being devoured by the long-spined sea urchin.
The currents and swell have preserved this oasis of plant life in the vast desert of spines. This site may well be a glimpse of what the seabed around the islands could have looked like before it was altered by human activity.
Sea conditions and the distance from the nearest port mean that we do not often have the opportunity to dive here. It is a dive at an ideal depth, although it is very easy to become disoriented due to the uniformity of the landscape and because the marine life can fascinate us so much that we lose our reference points for finding our way back.
We should not overlook the school of striped seabream that gives this dive site its name.
The best approach is to follow the person in charge of guiding the dive and enjoy the spectacle, dreaming that we are diving in any of the Canary Islands over a hundred years ago.
