This section is certainly the most impressive of the whole island as it is extremely rugged, mountainous and, in places, of awe-inspiring beauty. It is however a dangerous coast in bad weather there are virtually no harbours of refuge. With the exception of Calvi & Cargese and a few villages the land is virtually deserted.
Girolata entrance and moorings just around from our cala.
The coast consists of red rocky cliffs and steep sided bays and gulfs.
Louise thought the picture below looks like a bear
The battle of Calvi is where the then Captain Nelson lost his eye , having been struck by a piece of granite during an opposed landing .
In the next picture below the lowest piece of land you can see (middle right) is the bay Port Agro where Nelson landed his guns from HMS Agamemnon and hauled them over the hill to bombard Calvi .
The following pictures are rounding the cape with the citadel opening up in the distance
We were led to a berth in the Port de Peche right under the citadel.
At first site we were a wee bit dubious but we were tired and as we were already moored up, and it was an impressive situation, we just stayed put.
Big, big mistake !
We were also 200ft from Bar Le Tour, where from 20:00 to 24:00 three incredibly bad French singers performed, followed by music from the bar until 02:00 followed by night club music until 04:00.
Oh……. and then just as peace descended, the Corsican ferry berthed at the back of us in a maelstrom of wash & noise at 06:30. lol
It was a very pretty and an obviously historically interesting town, bit it was an early quick escape from us unfortunately. 
Can't see the bear resemblance, although I did see an earlier photo, where the rock formation looked like an elephant.
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