Limestone sea-arch - Malta's south coast

This natural limestone sea-arch is on the south coast of Malta, viewed from high up on the beautiful karst-landscape clifftops which are covered in wild flowers, and where lizards, amphibians and birds are prolific.
We had been visiting the nearby World Heritage sites of the Mnajdra and Hagar Qim Temples. These date from the fourth millennium BC, and are remarkable monolithic limestone constructions on a breathtaking scale. The carved rocks, weighing up to as much as 20 tons, were quarried, shaped, moved and erected in really remarkable formations. How this was achieved without metal implements and in the absence of any form of mechanisation simply defies imagination. I found it difficult to convey all this with one photograph and decided to go for the sea arch at the base of the nearby cliffs.