Sentences with phrase «bommies all»

These itineraries will feature a combination of lagoons, coral bommies and canyons to be enjoyed via drift dives, night dives and cave dives.

Bommies rise up from gullies and a landscape of staghorn - covered peaks and sandy valleys.

Bommies, coral reefs and an abundance of marine life stretch for the entire 2,300 km length of the reef.

The tranquil lagoon is home to 150 different species of hard corals and 15 species of soft, from staghorns to brain coral bommies.

Orpheus has some of the most colourful coral outcrops (known as bommies) on the entire Great Barrier Reef, along with more than 1,000 species of reef fish, 340 varieties of hard corals and one of the region's largest collections of soft corals.

Discover the flourishing bommies and historical wreck relics that lie beneath the waters off Magnetic Island on these self - guided snorkel trails.

Always stick close to the reef seek protection behind coral heads and bommies, and the currents that flow right up against the reef is always less fierce.

If you venture deeper you'll find schools of sweetlips beside bommies which are literally shrouded in glass fish.

Big healthy coral bommies teaming with life and a great diversity of hard and soft corals can be encountered underwater.

Several coral bommies separated by patches of sand are homes to an array of different shrimp species which can be heard crackling away on the dive.

This is a gentle sandy slope boasting some stunning coral bommies and areas of both table corals and staghorn corals.

The plateau is covered with coral bommies, huge table corals and the largest number of gorgonian sea fans at any of the dive sites around Sharm.

Sea snakes and octopus (Octopus vulgaris) can be spotted inside the crevices in bommies but be careful because the extremely venomous greater blue - ringed octopus has been seen in this area.

The greatest feature of scuba diving in Bali is the rich and varied sites - deep drop - offs and steep banks, coral ridges and bommies, one of the most famous wrecks in the world, volcanic outcrops and seagrass beds.

Here we offer a mix of day trips to Shark Reef and Beqa Lagoon, an area renowned for its coral reefs and bommies.

Outcrops of sweeping table corals sit at the foot of large coral bommies.

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As such, there are a dozen dive sites around the island within a 10 minute boat ride which can vary from gardens of coral bommies to vertical coral walls plummeting hundreds of metres.

With quality snorkel gear provided (including mask, snorkel and fins), explore the bommies and basins of rich coral.

The Maori Wrasse Bommie dive site is in the north western corner of the reef, and includes broken sandy bottom with small bommies and boulders, plus a large extent of staghorn coral which seems to be a favourite haunt of the turtles.

You'll find giant bommies shrouded in glassfish, huge gorgonian fans and table corals, sharks, turtles, trevallies, groupers and barracudas.

Both Plantation Pinnacle and Castaway's local Three Bommies are made up of three pinnacles rising from deep water with swim throughs at the base, slopes clad in hard and soft corals, and anemone gardens at the top.

Nearby are the Bommies dive sites, and the area in between is just the sort of terrain where scuba divers might find a large Moray hiding in the rocks.

They have access to an area south of Manado called Popooh which offers «macro» diving on small coral bommies in an area rich in sea - grass, muck diving in the dark sands of Manado Bay, the coral reef covered walls of nearby Bunaken Island, the soft coral around the volcanic island of Bangka Island, and renowned muck diving of the Lembeh Strait.

Famed for their marine megafauna — creatures like manta rays, turtles, whales — and big - as - a-car coral bommies (short for the Aboriginal word bombora, which means outcrop or mountain of reef), these southern ladies are true coral cay islands.

The forest was not all, though, as among the bommies surrounded by Glassy Sweepers, Wobbegong Sharks, Giant and Painted Frogfish, Ringed Pipefish, Green Moray were spotted.

Night dive happened in the neighbor site known as Devil Slope, a sandy slope where some bommies and other rocky formations offer the possibility of finding critters.

Here in shallow water, large coral boulders and coral bommies, with a healthy cover of soft corals, are scattered over a sandy bottom.

Those two bommies are covered with anthias, damsel, butterfly, lionfish, look on the lower part you will for sure spot nudibranchs... ribbon eels live nearby

Some of the best soft corals in Fiji can be found on the reefs and bommies to the north west of Viti Levu off the coast of Rakiraki diving in Vatu - I - Ra and Bligh Water.

Meanwhile, just 30 minutes boat ride away, the protected reefs of Apo Island provide a complete contrast, with lush seascapes of hard and soft coral, with slopes and walls carpeted in sponges and bommies.

Barracuda Point is a coral garden with a massive variety of hard corals and sloping wall with coral bommies.

This site is a small east to west ridge, with depth from about 8 — 30 meters, composed of hard corals and a few multicolour coral bommies on the east end.

Fiji's northern coast is often referred to as the Sun Coast, but divers are more familiar with Rakiraki, home to a couple of dive resorts, and the terms Bligh Water — the waters between Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, and Vatu - I - Ra an area with spectacular bommies, covered in soft corals rising from 25m to just below the surface.

This has to be one of the best dive sites in Asia for open water students or those who just like to dive in easy conditions a see the stuff of the underwater movies... from two shallow entry points on sandy bottoms the surrounding area is covered in hard coral,, giant table corals, staghorn coral, cabbage coral ans many many many other hard coral species thrive here, around twenty five bommies rise to about 5m which attract colorful fish galore, you can reach a depth of about 20m, but the best stuff is between 5 and 12m making it a perfect second or third dive of the day.

Corals are amazingly colourful and two giant coral bommies 4m high by 5m width frame the entrance to the slopy part of this dive site.

Excellent variety and number of hard and soft corals, big coral bommies and table corals.

The bay itself has got stunning corals with large bommies and much soft corals.

Descending right at the front of the wall in 5 meters water will lead toward the steep slope along the coastline, composition of the coral reef is mainly colonies of Stag Horn coral, coral heads and bommies rich with marine fishes, even pelagic like Sunfish often visits this site.

To fin along the edge towards the east, the reef pattern quite similar in its composition to boulder rocks, coral heads and bommies are extended until an outcrop, which is a mile away from the entry point.

The magnificent dive sites offer drift dives, wall dives, bommies (coral mountains), pinnacles, swim throughs and coral gardens.

From the place where the anchor is, the plated sand bottom with some bommies are well covered by soft corals, keep swimming on the right side (north) from a huge single lime rock toward the channel, you will end up in a wonderful cave underwater in 11 meters of water leads up to the surface under rugged lime cliff, suddenly will be heard the voice of roosting of bats clinking on the sealing of the cave.

Wall diving, bommies, drift diving, sea monoliths, coral gardens... so much to see.

Many of the sites are close to the shear vertical wall which is itself surrounded by coral bommies.

As well as the actual Cauldron area where you'll see the big stuff, there is also a channel with lots of coral bommies.

The Three Sisters are a series of three huge bommies, rising from the depths, where common residents seen are schools of fusiliers, snapper and barracuda.

Triple Stone dive site is an incredible site — scattered bommies and cleaning stations on a sandy bottom, each with an amazing amount of life.

Off Gili Trawangan, Sunset Reef has a large number of reefs and well - spaced coral bommies containing the biggest variety and abundance of reef fish of all kinds.

The Banda Islands with its rich history and riotously colourful walls and bommies would keep me occupied for the next few days.

Sailaway visits two snorkel sites, firstly from the Low Island beach and to reef bommies from the boat after lunch, spending 5 hours in the sheltered blue Low Isles lagoon.