Sentences with phrase «shallow sandy bottom»

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

With extraordinary topography, ranging from a shallow sandy bottom filled with small bommies, followed by a 3 m drop covered with coral and a huge variety of fish including turtles, clownfish and baby sharks.

At the north, you'll find a shallow sandy bottom with a colorful coral reef and a huge range of juvenile fish life.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the species which evolved exhibit innumerable combinations of colours and are adapted to different habitats, such as sandy bottoms, rocky shores or open waters — ranging from the clear shallows to the permanent darkness of the turbid depths.

This is also true of soft - shelled turtles (Apalone ferox), which have easily bruised shells and require a somewhat different setup (shallower water and a fine sandy bottom), and diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin), a stunning beauty that requires brackish water rather than fresh to avoid shell fungus.

The sandy bottom remains shallow inshore, and drops off slowly to deeper water.

With a beach break and waves coming from the right and left, the waves give a hollow, powerful fast surf that breaks very close to shore in shallow water and sandy bottom.

The combination of the sandy bottom, shallow depths and mix of reef life makes diving in Sanur particularly interesting for the novice diver.

At the beach itself the bottom is sandy, but when you go South - East there is the best shallow area coral like Elkhorn - and all kinds of Blade Fire Corals.

Dive site description: A shallow place with a sandy and rocky bottom where schools of jacks can show up from nowhere, some medium size Groupers swimming next to you.

A calm shallow reef dive with clear viz and a sandy bottom, this site is crammed with marine life all along the reef, you can see hundreds of stingrays such as blue spotted rays, ribbon and moray eels, schools of boxfish and batfish, dragonets and octopuses, as well as several varieties of macro critters and crustaceans like shrimps.

Ahonu is sandy bottom, pretty shallow, and can be quite crowded on the week - ends.

Macao's shallow waters and smooth sandy beach bottom make for a completely safe environment for learning to surf.

Located right in the middle of the hotel zone, Playa Caracol is popular among families with small children thanks to it's clear, shallow water and a sandy, not rocky, bottom.

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.

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

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.