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- April 2006
- The visibility
was great, and current strong at times. The weather was calm and
sunny. Perfect ingredients for some great boat rides and superb
diving.
- The Octopus
could be seen on all dive sites, often in pairs as shown on the
picture far right taken at Aquarium
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- L'ilot
- We had great
visibility and good sightings, but often with quite a strong
current. There were many interesting things to see, and not the
same things on every dive. Like the Torpedo Ray, she only showed
herself only once, and the Leaf Fish did not always come out of
hiding. Some pictures can be seen in this row and the row below.
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The Ennerdale Wreck
- We had good viz and good
dives here with on every visit some Giant Groupers and Napoleon
Wrasses. And lot's of schooling fish, Barracuda's and Fusiliers, we also
saw a Hawksbill on one of the dives. We explored some of the areas on
the stern of the wreck and found them to be beautiful encrusted
with sponges, and corals, and a great hiding place for Giant
Moray Eels.
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Jackpot
- This site was as
good every time we visited, teeming with life, and always some
rays and sharks to be seen.
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Feyte
- We explored some
sites that we thought they would be interesting dive sites. The
first one we explored was useless. There was very little coral
growth, and not much to see. Except at the end of the dive when
fish came out of all directions, they surrounded us and still
more kept on coming. But this will probably not happen every
time you visit the site. The second site looked like a another
disappointment, as we saw nothing but large seaweed the moment
we entered the water. Despite this we came to see lot's of good
stuff, good coral and much fish life, But the last site we
explored just blew it all, the rocks are laying in a formation
that made me think of the local sweet bread; Feyte. This site
was just stunning, a lot of soft coral and many branching hard
corals, and fish all over the place. A feast for the eye, sweet
Feyte
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- Egg Cowrie
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Joker
- Good visibility,
but ordinary dives. We did see the usual stuff , but we rarely
saw any Hawksbill Turtles this time. Did see an Egg Cowrie shown
left. This shellfish if hopefully making a comeback, we still
see it rarely for the moment.
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- Two Leaf Fishes
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- Sunset
Rocks
- Again we saw
the surgeonfish spawning, and soon the Mackarel came to feed
upon it. There were Leaf Fishes to see, some lobsters and as
usual the Peppered Moral Eels.
- We also made
a number of night dives here and they always revealed many
creatures we never see during the day, or only hidden and
not walking around freely. Pictures of what we saw can be
seen left, right and below of creatures such as Lobsters,
Moray Eels, and then there were Decorator Crabs, Sponge
Crabs, Hermit Crabs, tiny arrow crabs in fan corals, Whip
Coral Crabs, Lionfish, Tiger Cowries, Spanish Dancers, huge
Humpheaded Parrotfish, and also the Leaf Fish were still
there sitting in the same place during our night dives.
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- Tiger Cowrie
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- Yellowhead Moray Eel
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- Decorator Crab
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- Spiny Lobster
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- Tubastrea & Zigzag
Clams
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- Spanish Dancer
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- Peppered Moral Eels
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- Mole Cowrie
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- Yellow Tail Wrasse
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- Shrimp on Sea Whip
Coral
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- Red Hermitcrab
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- Two Sponge Crabs
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- Zebra Dwarf Lionfish
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- Small Arrow Crab on
Sea Fan in the center of the picture
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- Red Banded Boxer
Shrimp
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- Soft Corals and Clam
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- Humbhead Parrotfish
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