We came to these islands (one of my favourite places in the world!) to do some diving as we knew it was going to be really good.
I had dived here before but this time it was even more enjoyable: first, we did a quick refresher course as we both had not dived for years - for Ben it was 15 years this month, to be precise!
We were quite lucky as it was the end of the season so we had a dive master all to ourselves and had a lot more time/attention than usual: we went for 4 dives altogether and saw a lot of different types of fish, the first and the second dives were on sandy patches with reefs - we saw loads of clown fish (Nemos!) and a blue-spotted stingray. The third one was called "Temple of the Sea" as it was a pinnacle, we swam around it and saw some nudibranches (little sea worms), some very colourful purple angel fish, a big puffer fish and a poisonous stone fish... Guess what? It looked like a stone!
My favourite dive was the last one: in 2012, three police boats were sank by the local authority to create an artificial reef - that is now known as the 'Polis Wreck' dive site. We were able to swim between the boats, with massive schools of barracuda all around us: it really felt like being in a Nat Geo documentary, when they were circling around us in huge numbers. There was a big grouper fish that lives inside the top of the boat, lots of catfish hiding underneath the wreck and a lionfish was seen next to them. We also saw some jenkins stingray sleeping and covered in sand with only the eyes and the tail sticking out.
The three boats are connected by a rope you can walk on... I took my fins off and "walked the line", it is a lot harder than you think, 18mts deep and with all the equipment on!!
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| View from Long Beach |
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| Let's go diving! |
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