Cala Figuera is one of the last working fishing harbours on Mallorca's south-east coast, and its wooden llaüts still tie up beside the same stone slipways their builders cut into the rock. The inlet forks in two, a natural Y of water pushed nearly 400 metres inland, which is why the village was never fortified: the sea itself hid it. Boat sheds — escars — line both arms, roofed in Arab tile, their rails running straight into the water. The municipality of Santanyí has fished this coastline since at least the fourteenth century. Its quarries supplied the honey-coloured marès sandstone used in Palma Cathedral and in the Llotja, and the same stone forms the cliffs that fall into the sea between here and Cap de ses Salines. Erosion did the rest. Caló des Moro is a fissure barely 30 metres wide, floored with pale sand; Cala Màrmols lies further south, unreachable by road and guarded by an hour-long walk over garrigue. Neither has a kiosk, a lifeguard, or a gate. Entrance is free — 0 EUR — and the coves stand open at every hour, 00:00–23:59, seven days a week, because there is nothing there to close. That absence explains the modern rise of cala figuera boat hire. Land access to Caló des Moro collapsed under its own popularity; the sea route restores the scale the place was built for. Skippered departures from the harbour trace the cliffs past Cala Santanyí, Cala Llombards and the Torre d'en Beu, a sixteenth-century watchtower raised against Barbary corsairs and still standing on the headland above the harbour mouth. From the water the geology reads clearly: bedded limestone, wave-cut notches, sea caves that swallow a kayak whole near Mondragó. Today the coastline belongs to a protected natural park system, and the boats that work it — RIBs, catamarans, sea kayaks — replace the tuna nets and lobster pots of a century ago. A Santanyí coast boat tour is now the practical way to see beaches that cannot absorb another car. Cala Figuera itself remains stubbornly unchanged: no promenade, no high-rise, a handful of terraces above the water and fishermen mending gear at dusk. Booking cala figuera boat hire tickets is, in that sense, a form of deference — arriving the way the village has always arrived, from the sea, with the cliffs of Santanyí rising sheer on either side.