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- December 2006
- The first couple of
weeks of this month we had
- beautiful weather and flat calm seas.
After the middle of the month it got rainy mainly at night. And on the 20th
a Cyclone hit the far south of Seychelles, a 1000 Km. from Mahe. Here around Mahe we had stormy weather, with high seas and lot's of
rain. Followed by periods of sunny weather, after which it would
turn bad again. The visibility was still very good around most of
the dive sites, and well, we know which sites not to visit
during/after storms and heavy rainfall. And the water temperature,
it was a lovely 28 degrees Celcius.
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- Whale Sharks
- We saw them several
times, during dives, while on our way to a dive site from the boat
such as the one on the left, which we saw on the way to Shark Bank.
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- Light House
- This is where Gilly
made this dive, and saw a Whale Shark, Manta Rays, and Mobula Rays.
The Mobula Rays look like Manta Rays, but have their mouth not in
front in between the two fleshy lobes, which are called Cephalic
Fins. Their mouth is on the underside, which can be seen on the
picture in the second row below. And they are smaller than the giant
Manta Rays.
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- Aquarium
- Gilly has a good eye
for spotting odd creatures,
- again he saw this
Slipper Lobster and a Indian Ocean Walkman,
- this time at
Aquarium, a popular site in the bay of Beau Vallon.
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- Shark Bank
- A small site in the
middle of nowhere,
- all the life
concentrates on and around this small dive site.
- Often the currents
are strong here, but therefore you get to see
- the big fish, so it
is worthwhile the effort.
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- Gran Bazaar
- This is a new site,
in the logbook of next month you will see more pictures of this
site.
- The site has real
good hard corals and some very good fish life. Hawksbill Turtles,
Eagle Rays, Stingrays,
- and schooling
Batfish can be seen here, but also Lionfish, Devil Scorpion Fish and
loads of Schooling Yellow Snappers.
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- Biter Rock
- With it's tall
towering rock formations this is one of
- the most beautiful
underwater landscapes surrounded by pure white sand
- on the deep side.
This is also where the Grey Reef Sharks, Nurse Sharks
- giant Stingrays and
Eagle Rays come in play. Pictures, left,
- right and in the
four rows below are from this site.
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- Beacon Rocks
- When diving on the
Victoria side of Mahe we frequently visit this site.
- The visibility is
often good here and there is fish life in abundance, and all in
shallow depths of up to 16 meters only.
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- Manis Bank
- Visibility was not
always perfect here, but still very enjoyable as there is much reef
fish,
- lobsters, but also
Stingrays, Eagle Rays, White Tip Reef Sharks, and even a Grey Reef
Shark.
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- Lost City
- Our dives here were
as good as always, huge Stingrays, White Tip Reef Sharks, many
Lobsters and huge male Hawksbill Turtles can be seen here. And all
that in a landscape of huge granite rocks.
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- Toukoula
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- Brissare Rocks
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- Twin Barges Wreck
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- Jackpot
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- Whale Sharks near
the coast of Glacis
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- Night Dive at Twin
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- Marianne
- The ingredients:
Grey Reef Sharks and a good
- portion of other
fish all in a perfect visibility.
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- Marsoin
- Again a new site on
the east side of Mahe.
- Here are many
anemones with both Skunk Anemone Fish and Seychelles Anemone Fish.
We got to see
- several Hawksbill
Turtles, Lobsters, a White Tip Reef Shark and many schooling fish.
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- Anse Grand Barbe
at Silhouette Island
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- Anse Mondon on
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