type of Antipathes sp. around the
island including the beautiful white
bottle brush black coral.
The big novelty dive is the one
swim-through that goes completely
across the island. The cave dive site
normally starts by entering on the
island’s west side. It is a really long
tunnel. The
shallow part of
the dive starts by
swimming
between some big
boulders that are
up shallow. More
than a pair of
divers can fit side
by side in the big
entrance. There is
also a rope at the
tunnel roof. The
cave does get a bit deeper as one
goes through it and the blue
glimmer of the entrance disappears
just before the blue glimmer of the
exit appears. You need a guide and
a light and its about a five to ten
minute swim totally through to the
other side of the island.
This 100ft (30m) long tunnel
houses all the usual cave dwellers
like decorator crabs and painted
lobsters and usually some large
pufferfish. The cave is also home to
whitetip sharks which seems to add
to the thrill factor. The whitetips like
to sit inside or near this exit and rest
and let the current run over their
gills. The sharks will begrudgingly
move from resting. There are cat
and bamboo sharks as well as the
whitetips.
Macro buffs will like poking
along the walls of the island for
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