February 2006

The Visibility was great everywhere,

except for a couple of dive sites where

the current did not manage to clean

sweep the area. The weather was fairly calm and sunny, the sea was therefore

also quite calm.

 

Chuckles

The visibility was good and we got to see some Hawksbill Turtles, Lobsters, Eagle Rays, Leaf Fish, Moray Eels, Porcupine Fish, different species of Lionfish, Humphead Parrot Fish, and there where schooling fusiliers.

L'ilot

The visibility was just great, it makes any dive good. But what we came to see here just made it terrific. Many Hawksbills, Blackspotted Stingrays, Eagle Rays, schools of Rudderfish, Humphead Parrotfish, Giant Moray Eels, and we saw a Bull Shark on one of our dives here.

Sunset Rocks

Very often we see this playful Hawksbill Turtle here, this time she stayed around and we could stroke her one by one. She would swim off and come back again. She made this dive. We always saw some Eaglerays swimming in formation, as well as Octopus and the always present Peppered Moray Eels.

Shark Bank

The Giant Grouper suddenly appeared,

had a look at us and slowly swam off.

The Batfish are back again and always seem to hang out at the same spot. Sometimes we saw the Yellowtail Barracuda's and also the Great

Barracuda's, Octopus, Mantis Schrimp, Eagle Rays, Black Spotted Stingrays,

and the lone Humphead Parrot Fish.

Bay Ternay Marine Park

The visibility was not always good here. Often we had bad visibility in the shallow part and suddenly

as if you would open up a curtain there would be good visibility. There were always some Stingrays, White Tip Reef Sharks,

and Groupers to been seen. And the Schooling Mackerel, this school is so big, and often we see Jobs or Bonito's hunting them,

 or a Barracuda with them. We also got to see Turtles, octopus and other reef fish, such as big Pufferfish.

See Pictures below.

Light House

There is little coral growth on the granite boulders of this dive site, but it does attract a lot of fish and we usually have very nice dives here.

With good visibility this site is also very beautiful with it scenery of huge boulders and lot's of schooling fish.

Yellow Snappers at Dragons's Teeth

Porcupine Fish at Dragon's Teeth

Aquarium

We love this site, there is not so much good coral but there is a lot of fish.

And some very weird looking ones can sometimes be seen here, one of them is the Indian Ocean Walkman.

She is a family of the scorpion fishes and is mostly hiding in the sand with just the eyes

and some fetches of the dorsal fin tucking out.

Joker

More than a year ago I took a picture of 2 Stonefish, and this time I saw this one sitting in exactly the same spot. The couple of times I visited the spot afterwards she was not there anymore.

The pictures on the right and below are taken at Joker