- June 2006
- The first 2 weeks the visibility was still good and the
temperature of the water a warm 29 degrees Celcius. Later on the
visibility dropped and the seawater temperature as well to 26 degrees
Celcius. The weather was good, but it was quite windy.
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- Ile au Vache
- The dives here were
excellent with
- good
visibility and lot's of fish. A huge Stingray, schooling Humphead
Parrot Fish, Eagle Rays, schooling Mackrels, and Fusiliers and all
that in a beautiful scenery of granite rocks with some very good
coral growth. After our dive we were greeted by several noddy's
flying just over our heads. And we noticed a Turtle floating on the
surface. As it stayed with it's head down, we quickly realized that
she was either injured, ill or dead. We took her onto our boat, and
could not find any injuries or other indications that became her
death. Therefore we brought her to the SCMRT (Seychelles
Centre for Marine Research & Technology), but unfortunately they
were also unable to find her cause of death.
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- Dredger Wreck
- We got some nice
dives here on this wreck which is beautiful encrusted with sponges,
- clams and soft
corals. On one dive we found a White Tip Reef Shark in the Wreck,
and another time a small Stingray.
- There are always
many Scorpion Fish, Moray Eels and Schooling Yellow Snappers around
the wreck.
- Also a small school
of Striped Jacks was roaming around wreck.
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- L'ilot
- We had some
really interesting dives here, with mainly good visibility. On
one of the dives I noticed that the Zig-Zag Clam was spawning,
it looks like there is smoke coming from the clams. There was
also a lot of fish in action as there was a nice little current
flowing about.
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- Shark Bank
- This site is always
good, even when there is nothing out of the ordinary. The huge
amount of fish that is always present surely makes every dive
worthwhile to go. But besides the huge amount of schooling Big Eye
Snappers and Blue Striped Snappers we also got to see Schooling
Eagle Rays, some big Scorpion Fish, and Lobsters. The pictures left,
right and below are from this dive site.
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- Aquarium
- Some divers don't
like to go to dive sites where there is no attraction of big fish.
- Aquarium is a site
where one can find good variety of reef fishes but no big fish. Even
though there is often no big fish around,
- this site often
provides the scenery of a very entertaining dive. Interaction of
Moray Eels and Groupers, or Trumpet Fish and Groupers
- to hunt for fish can
often be seen here. But also unusual fish like the Leaf Fish, real
Stone Fish, and the Indian Ocean Walkman can be seen here.
- And during our
visits this month we even got to see a pair of Indian Ocean Walkman
walking about! The photo's below are from Aquarium.
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- Sunset Rocks
- This site is always
interesting as there is beautiful granite rock scenery with at
- many places brightly
colored soft corals and sponges. But it is also surrounded by a reef
with schooling snappers and a variety of reef fish. During our dives
here this month we got to see Hawksbill Turtles, Humphead
Parrotfish, Lobsters, Leaf Fishes, and during one dive also a free
swimming Spanish Dancer. I thought she was maybe not in good shape,
but when I put my hand underneath her she clung to it and would not
let go. Maybe she got disturbed and was looking for another place to
rest until it was time for her to come out again during the dark of
the night.
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- Bay Ternay Marine
Park
- We normally dive on
the main reef but this time I went to explore the reef on the side
of the popular beach Anse du Riz,
- where we often land
on our Day Trips to prepare our specialty a Creole Barbecue. The
reef is very lively with schooling Yellow Snappers,
- and Big Eye
Snappers, we saw a Sting Ray on the sand and found Schooling Cat
Fish under a coral head, and surrounded by small fry.
- Several Moray Eels.
And we also saw 2 Hawksbill Turtles and a pair of Seychelles
Clownfish.
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- Light House
- We had mainly good
visibility, although on some of our dives quite a bit of plancton,
and there was a lot of fish about. The schooling Jacks were there,
Napoleon Wrasses, Moray Eels, Leaf Fishes, Lionfishes, the Thorny
Boxfishes, Stingrays, and Barracudas. The Dolphin on the picture
below I saw just of the coast in Beau Vallon where a pod of them was
hunting on the mackerel. The visibility was very very poor but I
could not help myself, and still went into the water with my mask,
snorkel and fins, to enjoy seeing
them underwater and I took some pictures. The one below, if you look
well you can see that she just cought a fish!
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- Chuckles
- This is really a
beautiful site with lot's to see, but often there can be quite a
current.
- This time we were
actually just in time to still enjoy some good visibility, and were
there just before the current
- coming in from
Victoria brought along some of the sediment that had been stirred up
during past dredging activities.
- So we got to see
plenty of fish, a Hawksbill Turtle, Leaf Fishes, Lionfishes, Golden
Trevallies
- and Striped
Mackerel, and a good amount of colorful reef fishes.
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- Fond Clair
- This is a site we do
not visit very often as the reef is not so beautiful. I went on the
deep dive here and we got a very enjoyable dive with plenty to see.
Firstly on the sandy area we noticed a field of baby Sand Dollars,
gosh if they would have been worth each a US Dollar we would have
had thousands here. They were every where, as far as we could look,
and even when we swam over the field it never ended. On the reef we
got to see many schooling Yellow Snappers, and a really huge Blue
Lobster, and a Yellow Hermit Crab.
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