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BEQA ISLAND
CAESAR'S ROCKS
18-54 ft
A collection of bommies blanketed in pink, red, and orange soft corals
is the focus here. The bommies provide interesting swim-throughs, channels,
and caverns. Giant gorgonians conceal hawkfish and trumpetfish, while
nudibranchs and blennies prefer the many cracks and crevices. Schools
of tuna are also frequently sighted here.
SEVEN SISTERS
15-57 ft
Seven pinnacles provide the namesake for this section of the reef, which
is covered with fans, soft corals, and crinoids in a variety of vivid
colors. A discerning eye will spot octopus, flatworms, shrimps, morays,
anemones, basslets, and anthias. White-tip and black-tip sharks are frequent
visitors.
CARPET COVE
18-90 ft
A carpet of anemones in the shallows precedes a reef that houses scorpion
leaffish of varying colors. A wall is covered in hard corals, soft corals,
and fans and provides a colorful backdrop for blue ribbon eels, anemonefish,
dartfish, pygmy wrasses, and batfish. The nearby wreck of an 80ft Chinese
trawler is encrusted with sponges and soft corals and attracts many lionfish.
FANTASEA
15-75 ft
A coral ridge teeming with crinoids, whip corals, bubble corals, and giant
gorgonian fans. Look for shrimps, orangutan crabs, lionfish, snapper,
nudibranchs, flatworms, damselfish, tang, dartfish, anthias, fairy basslets,
anemones and clownfish. Fields of garden eels can be found along the sandy
floor nearby.
E.T.
45-63 ft
This dive site features an enormous tunnel that houses two separate chambers.
The walls of the tunnel are decorated with soft corals, sea fans, and
cup corals. Use a torch to search for nurse sharks, nudibranchs, sea slugs,
lionfish, morays, crabs, and a variety of shrimp. A mysterious maze of
smaller tunnels, at times stacked or parallel, truly lends an "out
of this world" feel to the experience.
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