Bugibba Jetty extends forty metres into St Paul's Bay, a concrete tongue that has launched more than two million passengers toward Comino since the first commercial catamaran route opened in 1998. The jetty replaced a narrow stone pier that serviced fishing luzzus for three centuries; today it handles twelve departures daily between April and October, each vessel carrying between sixty and one hundred fifty guests. St Paul's Bay takes its name from the shipwreck described in Acts 28, when the apostle's grain freighter ran aground on the northern shoals during a storm in 60 AD. The bay's sheltered curve made it a natural anchorage for Phoenician traders, Roman galleys, and later the Knights of St John, who built coastal watchtowers to warn Valletta of Ottoman corsairs. Modern boat parties trace a route northeast across five nautical miles of open water, passing Salina Bay and the red clay cliffs of Qawra Point before reaching the Comino Channel. The Blue Lagoon became Malta's most photographed marine site after Italian tour operators began running day trips from Sicily in 1972. Its turquoise clarity results from a limestone shelf that drops from two metres to twenty within fifty metres of shore, creating a natural amphitheatre of white sand and posidonia meadows. The lagoon occupies a narrow channel between Comino's southwest coast and the uninhabited islet of Cominotto; at high season, anchor lines from thirty vessels crisscross the bay. Full-day st paul's bay boat party tours extend the itinerary to include Gozo's Xlendi cliffs and the inland sea at Dwejra, where the Azure Window arch collapsed in March 2017. Catamaran operators added trampoline nets and swim platforms in the early 2000s, transforming functional ferry crossings into social cruises with onboard DJs and open bars. Crystal Lagoon, a smaller inlet on Comino's eastern shore, offers an alternative anchorage with fewer crowds and deeper water suitable for snorkelling the Santa Marija Caves. Departure schedules cluster between nine and eleven in the morning to maximize daylight hours at the swimming stops. Most st paul's bay boat party tickets include a four-to-six-hour itinerary with two or three anchored intervals, the longest reserved for Blue Lagoon's shallows. Vessels range from thirty-foot speedboats to sixty-foot catamarans; the latter provide shade canopies and onboard toilets, critical for families and longer voyages. Comino itself remains undeveloped except for a single hotel and the baroque chapel of Santa Marija, built in 1618 by Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt. The island's eighteen square kilometres support wild thyme, rock centaury, and a resident population of six. Summer water temperature averages twenty-four degrees Celsius, warm enough for extended swimming without wetsuits. Return crossings typically reach Bugibba Jetty by eighteen-hundred hours, timed to avoid the evening ferry traffic from Gozo's Mgarr harbour.