February 2005
Good visibility turning down only slightly during some days. We saw WHALE SHARKS during many occasions at various places.
 
Cap Matoopa: Good visibility and not much current. We saw one WHALE SHARK briefly on the surface and that was it. But we had a nice dive, saw a couple of White Tip Reef Sharks, some Marbled Stingrays, 3 Leaf Fishes, an Octopus and some of the schooling Batfish. On the way to the next dive site we saw several WHALE SHARKS just of Whale Rock, we snorkeled with one of the whale sharks which stayed around for quite some time.
Light House: Visibility quite good and lot's to see. There are two Leaf Fishes at the lone rock, a pink one and a white one. There are two more Leaf Fishes at the deep end, both brown. There are also lots of moray eels, Yellow Margin, and Giant Moray eels, small Peppered Moray eels and an Octopus, big Pufferfishes are around. But there is also Cowfish. We saw Marbled Stingrays, Eagle Rays and White Tip Reef Sharks on the dives too.
Bay Ternay Marine Park: Visibility bad at the shallow end but on all dives good at the top on outside of the reef. We saw Green and Hawksbill turtles on all of the dives we made. But saw Stingray on only one of the dives and on the other we saw Eagle Rays. The two baby White Tip Reef Sharks were there and the big pufferfishes, as well as all the other reef fishes and the curious groupers. We saw 4 WHALE SHARKS here after the dives, and snorkeld with them for a while before we went on Therese Island for a BBQ. 
Twin Barges: Here the visibility was bad on all dives. But we had great dives with interesting things to see. The Leaf Fishes could not be found on the wrecks these times but we did see them on the reef next to the wrecks during the same dive. There was a white and a pink one. On the wreck we saw many Lionfish, Crocodile Fish, several scorpionfish, 3 beautiful nudibranches "Chromodoris Geminus", and many of the white peppered moray eels.
Dragon's Teeth: A bit of current and good visibility made our dives here. There were Hawsbill Turtles, White Tip Reef Sharks, many Lobsters, Eagle Rays, many Pufferfish, Octopus, all amidst huge schools of Yellow Snappers, and Blue Fusiliers. Some of the Giant Moray eels were around and all that in the beautiful underwater scenery of this site. Ennerdale Wreck: Good visibility even at the bottom. Got a Fantasea Stingray right at the start of the dive. Later we saw schooling striped Jacks, Black Jacks, some Napoleon Wrasses, and a humphead Parrot Fish, several big Bearded Scorpion Fishes, Giant Moray Eels and we saw a BLUE MARLIN passing by.
Therese Island: As usual we organized a day trip couple of times this month, two of them with a BBQ on Therese Island, and one with BBQ on the beautiful beach of Anse du Riz in the Marine Park of Bay Ternay. Both beaches have an inland pool were seawater and rainwater mingle. Funny because the warm salt water sinks and the cold rainwater floats on top of it. Several species of fish and crabs live there, as well as mangroves.

 

 

Mammelles Rocks: We jumped at the new area off the main rocks. The visibility was quite good and the current was not too strong. The thousands of fusiliers are still there, many different species of them the Many-Lined Fusiliers, Yellow-Back Fusiliers and the the Twin Striped Fusiliers. The rocks were covered by colorful soft corals and filled by tiny fishes called Sweepers, and the Fusiliers. There are always many Angelfish too, as well as moray eels accompanied by cleaner shrimps. Although we were not lucky to see any Nurse Sharks, or Stingrays like usual, there were also Octopus, Lionfish and Eagle Rays.
L'ilot: We had good visibility and quite some current on most of the dives there, but that means lot's of fish around, Rudderfish, Snappers and schooling Sergeant Majors, as well as a school of Eagle Rays. And 2 WHALE SHARKS during one of the dives there. And others could be seen snorkeling after the dives.
Chuckles: Every time we dived here we had a wonderful dive with so much fish. There were Sweetlips, Oriental and grey and even a Giant Sweetlip, many groupers, Batfish, and lobsters as always. But also two Giant Moray Eels together, a Hawksbill Turtle, Cowfish, Bearded Scorpionfish, Octopus, and Eagle Rays. The schooling fusiliers were there as always as well as the schooling Blue Trevallies.

Shark Bank: Good visibility, and quite a strong current on most of the dives. So much to see. The huge big Marbled Stingray was there as well as some smaller ones, Feathertail Stingray, a huge big Blue Lobster. Two Bearded Scorpionfish are there laying next to each other, during several of our dives there. The Great Barracuda where around close up during one of the dives, as well a the big school of Batfish. There were always many Eagle Rays around, Moray eels and Cowfish. Two Octopus could be seen figthing with each other for a little while, and we even saw a Porcupine Ray on one of the dives. And last but not least the huge school with Blue Striped Snappers.
 
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