November 2004

Mammelles Rocks: Good visibility, little current. Several napoleon wrasses, some really big ones too. Eagle Rays, big moray eels, and a porcupine stingray, several big humphead parrotfish, big scorpion fish. Seychelles anemone fish, and some white tip reef sharks.

Brissare Rocks: Good visibility, strong current at times. Porcupine stingrays, marbled stingrays, many white tip reef sharks, big scorpion fish, big moray eels, and lot's more as usual.
Blanchisseuse Rocks: Excellent visibility. Marvelous dive. Nurse Shark, octopus, eagle rays, lobsters, striped sweetlips, lionfish, schooling blue trevallies, and lot's of reef fish around in a beautiful underwater scenery.

We went on a trip to La Digue and made a dive at Ave Maria too. The sea was flat calm and we had beautiful sunny weather.

 

Dredger Wreck: visibility quite good. Small stingray under the wreck, many porcupine fish, lionfish, moray eels, lobsters. Schooling jacks were coming around frequently too.
Ave Maria: Good visibility and lot's to see. Hawksbill turtle, several white tip reef sharks, schooling blue striped snappers, big puffer fishes. L'ilot: Bad visibility. But lot's to see on the dives. Hawksbill turtles, Seychelles Anemone fishes, many lion fish, blue trevallies, schooling big eye jacks, scorpion fish, devil scorpion fish, giant sweetlip, giant moray.
Grand Barbe Rocks: Good visibility, beautiful soft coral on the rocks at the corner. Many lobsters, big white tip reef shark resting. Family of napoleon wrasses, and many humphead parrotfish.
We had a beautiful daytrip to the island of Silhouette where above dive site is situated.
We saw some fisherman at Grand Barbe and got some additional fresh fish for our BBQ on the beach at Anse Mondon
Trompeuse Rocks: Excellent visibility and fish everywhere. Batfishes followed us throughout the dive and kept nibbing in our fins, it made all of us turn around at times wondering who had bumped into us. A white tip reef shark stayed around for a while. There were many lobsters, a huge big giant of a moray eel. A white tailed stingray. Schooling eagle rays, humphead parrots, schooling neon fusiliers, and beautiful rock formations.
Dragon's Teeth: Visibility is good, current is not very strong. Many fantasea stingrays around, and also marbled stingrays, eagle rays and a big feathertail stingray. Some white tip reef sharks were around and a nurse shark. Marianne: Fairly ood visibility not much current, and around 25 to 30 grey reef sharks were coming around and stayed with us throughout the dive. Many batfish were there too

This time we were having a day trip to Praslin. We made our dives first and then had lunch on Praslin. Gilly got a bottle of whisky with Baba, he got some ice too, and we all had a drink on the way back to Mahe. In no time we were back on Mahe, or perhaps it was the whisky?

 
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