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Davis Harbour, Eleuthera
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Merry Christmas to all and to all a great diving

Diving on Christmas Eve, looking at the “Christmas Tree Worms” in all their various colors, such a treat. But on this dive i noticed that the tops of some of the Christmas Tree Worms had white on the tops, something I have not seen or noticed before. Perhaps this is their
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Great encounter with a young Hawksbill Turtle

It has been raining a lot on the south end of the island, and with the rain run off lowered the visibility to around 75 feet on Blackbeard’s Treasure Hole. I was kind of bummed out by the low visibility and we were at 45 minutes into the dive and thinking about heading back to t
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NE winds at 20-25 mph and we are diving in seas less than 1 foot!

Been here on Eleuthera doing diving now for three (3) years, it is true, “time flies when you are having fun”. So the email at 6:30 am which said “I want to go. Just wanted to make sure it wasn’t going to be miserable out there for my wife. Seas are pretty big
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Have it your way, our new German friends did.

Florian decided to bring his company from Germany to Eleuthera for a team building retreat, half those with the company were divers (four of which were newly certified and this would be their first open water dives) and half were snorkelers. ”We would like to have two days on t
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Two new dive sites, a wall called Shark Tease and a pinnacle called Thick Finger Reef

John and Terry back from Kansas City to dive with Ocean Fox Cotton Bay, they are becoming regulars and both very good divers. Last Saturday I did a fly over the south shore line in a small plane with my friend Jim looking for possible dive sites. On Wednesday morning I get a call, hey
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Bridge Exploration Dives, doing the South Wall for the first time! Staghorn Reef site,

Ventured out to the “Bridge” to do some exploration dives yesterday, September 21st. The Bridge is an underwater ridge connecting the SE tip of Eleuthera (a.k.a. Lighthouse Point) to Little San Salvador, about 11 miles away. The bridge has depths of 22′ to 75′
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Summer’s Over, diving with the Weiss family

Summer must be officially over, first day with winds out of the NW, albeit very light winds. Seas flat, visibility 100′+ with over cast sky. Alan Weiss, the dad, along with Brandon and Cameron (from California) did the shark site today. Cameron makes watches and had made a watc
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The Smooth Trunk Fish

On a recent dive on Blackbeard’s Treasure Hole, the site we would like to see set up as a very small ”Marine Protected Area” ( link http://oceanfoxcottonbay.com/blog/needed-marine-…-for-eleuthera/ ) we encountered a rather friendly Smooth Trunk Fish, which is a spe
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Families from England diving and snorkeling; Spotted Eagle ray, shark and Hawksbill turtle

PICT1250 Ben with two of his boys and a new friend staying at an adjacent house on Windemere from England; Andrew with his wife, 3 daughters and son from Grand Cayman (calls England home), 3 divers and 3 snorkelers. dive one was on Rich’s canyon, spotted eagle ray and shark, two
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Needed Marine Protected or Preserve Areas for Eleuthera

Those who have been diving with Ocean Fox Cotton Bay for the last year and a half have likely heard Al discuss our desire to create a Marine Protected or Preserve Area at Blackbeard’s Treasure Hole. Our desire is to create a small Preserve area, likely the size of 2 or 3 footbal
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