Category Dive Logs

1. Dive – Lovely wall that we followed through the dive. The cave was part of the sloping reef. Very small cave. Just enough room for three divers to fit.

2. Sightings – Lots of turtles around 4 to 5 feet in dia., Huge turtle in a smaller cave, 1 hawsbill small guy, brilliant glass fish and a kowri in a small cove, lots of soft coral, stunning turquoise and violet clam, larger olive green and mauve clam, black colour lion fish, bright orange long arm star fish.

3. Cave – Lovely view of the outside from inside the cave. Air bubbles looked like mercury on the roof of the cave.

4. Experience – Strange to be finning alongside the wall with no bottom in sight. Great visibility.

1. Dive – Lovely wall that we followed through the dive. The cave was part of the sloping reef. Very small cave. Just enough room for three divers to fit.

2. Sightings – Lots of turtles around 4 to 5 feet in dia., Huge turtle in a smaller cave, 1 hawsbill small guy, brilliant glass fish and a kowri in a small cove, lots of soft coral, stunning turquoise and violet clam, larger olive green and mauve clam, black colour lion fish, bright orange long arm star fish.

3. Cave – Lovely view of the outside from inside the cave. Air bubbles looked like mercury on the roof of the cave.

4. Experience – Strange to be finning alongside the wall with no bottom in sight. Great visibility.

Mainly training excercises, mask clearing, buddy breathing, signals, fin pivots, regulator recovery

1. Strangely dont remember much except that we saw atleast 10 turtles green turtles. And one solitary huge puffer fish.

1. Trip – Had to manouver the Wahoo cleverly over coral on the way back coz the tide had started to get low. All buddy pairs were equiped with torches.

2. Site – 1 solitary large lovely coral rock, no other rock in sight for quite a few metres. Just kept circling the rock and discoering the life on it. Lots of microscopic sparkling life when the toch was switched off.

3. Sightings – 2 Shy dusky morrays who refused to come out of their hiding place. Baby octopus, cleaner shrimp, glass fish, angel fish

4. Experience – Very different to be in the sea at night, colours are diminished and the torch is like a security blanket, alot of excitement though, the night was clear and was lonely to floa and look at the stars.

Mainly training excercises, mask clearing, buddy breathing, signals, fin pivots, regulator recovery

1. Strangely dont remember much except that we saw atleast 10 turtles green turtles. And one solitary huge puffer fish.

1. Trip – Had to manouver the Wahoo cleverly over coral on the way back coz the tide had started to get low. All buddy pairs were equiped with torches.

2. Site – 1 solitary large lovely coral rock, no other rock in sight for quite a few metres. Just kept circling the rock and discoering the life on it. Lots of microscopic sparkling life when the toch was switched off.

3. Sightings – 2 Shy dusky morrays who refused to come out of their hiding place. Baby octopus, cleaner shrimp, glass fish, angel fish

4. Experience – Very different to be in the sea at night, colours are diminished and the torch is like a security blanket, alot of excitement though, the night was clear and was lonely to floa and look at the stars.

rocky – sandy substrate

fringing reef gradually sloping to a steep slope.

upper reef zone: branching corals mostly Acropora and Porites. Soft corals of genus Lobophytum, Sarcophyton, Nephthea and Cladiella.

lower reef zone: Massive Porites and bed of soft corals.

Fish Species: dominated by parrotfishes, goatfishes and monocle breams.

Butterflyfishes: C.baronesa, C. ornatissimus

Angelfishes: C. vroliki and C. tibicen

sandy substrate, mostly live branching Acropora species, there was a wide A. palmata. lots of massive Porites and encrusting corals too.

gradual slope terminating into a drop-off

some corals were over turned, this was due to abalone harvesting..

home of diverse fish species (i identified 55 species in all)