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ISLAND RESORT
Dive Sites
Navigator Lane
This is a magnificient dive with an abundance of healthy corals, sea fans, sea whips and fantastic hard coral formations so dense that you cannot land without damaging the corals!
This dive is one of spectacular colour sand breathtaking beauty. The corals are awesome and there is fish life of every size and description. The hammerheads are also seen here on a regular basis and in great numbers.
Photographers, be prepared for panoramic views with large pelagics and colourful nudibranchs. Dive this site a couple of times to experience the full range of the magnificent marine life it holds.
Gorgonian Forest
This one of the main areas for the hammerhead sharks, but its most beautiful feature is the dense forest-like formation of gorgonian sea fans that line the drop-off wall.
Schooling fish large and small are abundant here and the hard corals are spectacular. Sponges of fantastic proportions grow along the walls and the sea whips spear the blue. Amongst all these plentiful growth, charge the horse-eye jacks in their thousands, swimming alongside tuna, surgeon fish, fusilier and grey-reef sharks.
If you're lucky, you'll also catch schooling hammerheads here. Keep your eye on your dive master if he or she swims out into the blue; follow slowly and quietly. Although hammerhead sharks may have a fearsome reputation, they are in fact shy creatures and will swim off quickly into the deep.
In the shallows, there are many small to large coral formations. Sweet-lips can be photographed up close and giant groupers hang out along the wall. Approach gently or they will disappear quickly into holes. Barracudas cruise by and swim along with you as if escorting you through their domain. One or two dives are not enough for this unbelievable site of breathtaking beauty.
Wreck Point
This dive site is also enjoyable for snorkeling. In the shallows, we have hard coral gardens awash with an abundance of small, beautiful tropical reef fish. These reflective spots of colour dance about the dense hard corals in choreographed tranquility. On the drop-off, clusters of soft corals hang, defying gravity, swaying in the current.
Over the edge, at 20m+ levels, there are barrel sponges, gorgonian fans, sea whips and an amazing view as the wall fades into the depths of the ocean. Manta rays, dogtooth tuna, reef sharks are spotted here on a regular basis, so look seaward from time to time as you make your way along the wall.
Wreck Point is also an interesting night dive in the shallow caverns and cul-de-sacs. A huge humphead parrot fish sleeps in the shallow drop-off. Be careful not to stare at this gentle giant or it may, in an attempt to get away, collide with you, and we all know who will come away worse off.
Take your time in the sand slopes where there are sand-divers & razor fish that can easily dive straight into the sand. You need to go slow to catch up to these interesting characters.
Dogtooth Lair
This is a one extraordinary dive. It has all that one could wish for from large to small of both fish and corals.
Turtle gently glide along, schools of fusiliers and surgeon fish swim by, and swirling horse-eye jacks move like twisters across the thick and healthy coral formations. There are overhangs and ledges to be explored. One can find stingrays asleep next to white-tip reef sharks.
At the drop-off, large sun-fish have been seen. Look out for the hammerhead sharks as this is part of their cruising area. Cleaning stations abound and there is a wide variety of nudibranch and flatworms.