St Paul's Bay

Beautiful blue waters

The site of St Paul's shipwreck

The fish farm

We took a glass bottom boat from Bugibba to view sea life and to see the site where St Paul was shipwrecked in AD60. St Paul brought Christianity to Malta. Before his landing, Malta was a Pagan society which has now stayed predominantly Christian since St Paul, apart from the period of occupation by the Arabs.

The story goes that the church of St Paul was built upon the site where St Paul built a bonfire and threw a viper into it ejecting all the poison from Malta's snakes.

The glass bottom boat was small and very pleasant, with few passengers. The glass bottom was clear, if not a little claustrophobic. You climbed down some steep steps into the bottom of the boat where there were benches. A few passengers decided against it and were quite happy to go back above on deck. The sea life was clear to see, but there was nothing exciting, no unusual fish, etc.. just schools of the same small fish, interesting enough seeing them weave in and out. We weren't down there long and simply enjoyed the ride. The crew were very helpful in pointing out sites of interests and knowledgeable in their history.

We sailed leisurely passed the point of St Paul's shipwreck site and passed a fish farm which was guarded.

The trip didn't last more than a couple of hours, back on shore we enjoyed a nice lunch and some swimming to cool down.

We used Captain Morgan Cruises for our Underwater Safari in the glass bottom boat. Departing from Bugibba from 10am onwards.