Alison, our good diving friend from England is back for “a bit of diving” and then i get a call from Sue who is also from England about doing a few dives. Sue is staying at the Rainbow Inn, [email protected] run by Mish and Zev. They had a great time on the trip talking about good ole England along with an interesting discussion of diving in England with dry suits.
We did two of the three canyons/swim throughs on Rich’s Canyon and then off to Blackbeard’s Treasure hole. Here are our divers coming up the chimney on Rich’s canyon leg two, with a total of 3 canyon legs on the dive.
Sue, Alison and Drew exiting Rich’s canyon leg 2 up onto the reef
Swimming on the top of the reef on the wall, water temperature has dropped to 75 degrees, mostly from hurricane Sandy, but we saw little evidence of damage to the reefs or canyons.
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Here is Alison exiting Rich’s Canyon onto the wall at 95′
Alison exiting Rich’s Canyon onto the wall at 95′
off to Blackbeard’s Treasure hole for some great photo opportunities,
finger coral and staghorn coral
Scrawled file fish
This scrawled file fish was unusually friendly as a relative statement, when seen they are hard to get close enough to photograph. Not the best photo or video, this one was approaching 18-24″ in length, but as close as i have been with a camera.
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One of the beauties of Blackbeard’s Treasure Hole is the abundance of coral, there are five (5) species of coral in this photo,
Knobby Cactus, center; Blushing Star Coral, left; Sunray Lettuce Coral,upper center; Warty Sea Rod (Eunicea)
although somewhat difficult to see, there is some Sun Anemone with white tips starting to grow from under the star coral,
Sun Anemone growing under Star Coral
Two very nice dives on an otherwise windy day, wind was blowing out of the Northeast at 15mph + and we had less than 1 foot seas, as the diving on the South End of Eleuthera is protected by the land. Alison did mention that she had recently been diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and thought our diving was as good as the diving down under. But the boats are much larger with very large groups of divers and she loves our small group dive trips. She wanted to see a Spanish Lobster, it took a while but i found her one on Blackbeard’s treasure Hole; Ocean Fox Cotton Bay is a small professional scuba diving and deep sea fishing centre which allows personalized service for our clients.
,,,”Ocean Fox Cotton Bay diving……..anything else is just a surface interval”
