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- September 2006
- The weather was very
unusual, lot's of wind and very often we had showers of rain.
Normally this is a fairly dry period, we have often experienced
draughts during this time of the year. The visibility was going up
and down, sometimes it was bad on a particular site and the next
time you get there the visibility would be quite good. The water
temperature slowly got warmer, we now have a 27 degrees Celcius
water temperature.
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- Bay Ternay
- Here the visibility
is often still good, and we had nice dives with lot's of fish, moray
eels, lionfish and the usual reef fish. We also saw a big school of
Razor Fish in the shallow end, where they often can be seen. But we
saw not one turtle. We get the idea that somehow they all went to
lay eggs, as when we do see a turtle they are only the small ones.
Let's wait and see, I am sure they will be back in the numbers that
we have seen them before. Pictures left, right and below are taken
at Bay Ternay.
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- Corsair Reef
- What you can see in
the sand. Gilly photographed these animals just on the edge of
Corsair Reef after he came from the Twin Barges Wreck. Far left two
Double Ended Pipefish, middle picture a Slipper Lobster, and the
last picture, two Ghost Pipe Fish.
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- Shark Bank
- This is a site where
diving is always good, plenty of fish around and all that in a small
area. So not a lot of swimming required to see it all. Good, because
the current can be strong here, but therefore you get rewarded with
rays, and a good variety of fish, moray eels, Octopus. A couple of
large Humpheaded Parrotfish is always present as well as lobsters,
and real big Scorpion Fish.
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- Cap Matoopa
- Visibility was not
always good here but sighting were terrific! We always had several
Stingrays, and many White Tip Reef Sharks were to be seen. There
were schooling mackarels, and huge schools of Parrot Fish, a real
fat and big Stone Fish, several Octopus and also the huge school of
Batfish to be seen.
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- L'ilot
- Visibility is
getting better on one side of the little Island; L'ilot. The Giant
Sweetlip on the right picture is getting really big. She measures
more than a meter now, and she get's more easy around divers it
seems. Of course we had lot's of fish to enjoy here, and there was a
Hawksbill Turtle around.
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- Debrouye
- Again we found a new
dive site. This is a reef not far from our base, and we had
- some really nice
encounters here. There are schooling yellow snappers that cruise
over the reef.
- Some carpet Anemones
with Seychelles Anemone Fish. Formations with clouds of small fry
and
- Lobsters among them.
I also found a big Stone Fish and found it was still there on
another day.
- But it had moved to
another place later on. There were also several Moray Eels and
- Puffer Fish to be
seen. And then of course the usual amount of Reef Fish.
- All pictures below
are taken at Debrouye.
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