Sentences with phrase «shallow coral heads»

The snorkeling here consists of shallow coral heads spread out over a very large area within the reef.

Many islands are surrounded by vast landscapes of shallow coral heads that are home to grouper, lobster and a wealth of colorful tropical species.

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Once you're comfortable, you'll then head off to a shallow reef where you'll encounter your first signs of life; usually reef fish, corals, anemones and the occasional large fish.

These areas of the coral head are dead and silted in, probably due to the shallow water covering them which allows more sunlight and thus more colonization by algae.

One should observe in some of these shallower patches the concave, hollow, upper surface of the large coral heads.

Island beaches and coastlines may face extensive shallows filled with coral heads, or transition into spur - and - groove coral reefs that slope downward to depths of 40 to 60 feet before turning into steep walls that can drop thousands of feet.

Once you are comfortable with the equipment and your instructor thinks you are ready, you will head into deeper waters (up to 15 feet deep) to go scuba diving at a shallow coral reef teeming with aquatic life.

For a gentle and shallow dive with an easy current and colorful coral, head to the Rubiah Sea Garden and say hello to the turtles.

Patch Reef: These are small clumps of coral heads on a shallow sandy bottom.

Head to the harbour wall — one of the best snorkeling spots in Durban about which few people know — where there is the best coral available on this coastline in shallow waters.

Walk right into the water from the beach and head left or right for shallow mounds of coral.

You will then head to the coast to the lovely beach of Playa Uvas where you can do some snorkeling at one of the most active shallow coral reef sites in the region.

A shallow site with a maximum depth of 15 meters, this is a sandy slope with some very nice coral heads.

While large coral heads are sparse here in shallow water, there is a sandy bottom, where many lively yellowhead jawfish poke their heads out of holes in the coral rubble.

Once descended, simply take your landmark (often the mooring buoy) make your dive, and on the way back, slowly head toward shore while enjoying the shallows where you're likely to find pods of squid and long nose needle fish hovering just below the surface, or the yellow headed jaw fish hiding in the coral rubble.

We will climb on board our dive boat and start heading out to sea, where we will stop on top of one of the best coral reef destinations for shallow water diving.

Navigating through the narrow shallow pass, we enter the blue lagoon full with coral heads and rocks and head for a long white sandy beach fringed with coconut palms.

As you swim further out, there are thousands of shallow areas filled with coral heads and reefs that extend thousands of square miles.