Baumgärtli

Baumgärtli (little tree garden) is a very popular dive spot. It has easy entry, relatively flat shore full of aquatic plants, with a lot of fish, especially in summer and autumn. It’s great for beginners and one of favorite spots for open water training.

Entry & Exit

Stairs carved in rock at the beginning of parking area, permanently mounted rope to help with going up and down. Be careful, after rain it can be slippery. After going into the water you stay in very shallow area, which make it easy to put fins on and off.

Dive description

You dive in direction right (Arth). You go at 5-8 meters and slowly descend. After about 5 minutes you go down at 20 meters, where you will find a big tree. You dive further until you arrive at big stone wall, that slowly descends. It goes down to 50 meters. Usually (if you do sport diving) you turn around at 40 meters and ascend on the top of the wall. Burbots often hide in the crevices of the wall, and on the top, at about 30 meters, they have their mating ground (at the winter beginning).

The wall goes up to the surface, you can stay at 3-5 meters, and swim along the aquatic plants up to the pier (you’ll see big pillars under water), then turn around and return to the entry (very flat area starting at 3 meters).

Parking

Parking area is big, for about 20 cars, but it’s also used by hikers and swimmers, so it can be full on sunny days.

Facilities

• Restaurant Baumgärtli
• Toi-Toi
• AED
• Hiking area Chiemen

Gallery

Parking

Entry

Exit (flat area)

Stone wall