Critter's Alley dive site

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Overview

Description

One of our favourite discoveries and the best place site to go hunting for the super macro. Critters alley can be found just off the shore, at the edge of the drop off. A sandy bottom dive, where one explores patches of weed, small bommies and sandy flats. Regular sightings include shrimps, nudibranches, sap sucking slugs, seahorses, spiny devil fish, dwarf lionfish, snake eels and morays. Quite often we are also lucky enough to spot the cockatoo wasp fish, helmut gurnard and ghost pipe fish. Look out for shaun the sheep, frogfish and a variety of cephlapods! Honestly - this site continues to surprise us with new finds all the time! This site is definitely for muck divers as the entirety of the dive is spent combing through the underwater habitat with our noses to the ground.

Location -7.97207, 39.75008Get Directions

Useful training for this sitePADI Peak Performance Buoyancy

Dive Types

Beach, Muck

Entry

Shore

Common SightingsFrogfish, Scorpionfish, Lionfish, Angelfish, Butterflyfish, Pipefish, Seahorse, Moray eel, Squid, Nudibranch, Octopus, Crab, Shrimp, Indian Walkman, Jawfish, Mantis shrimp, Ghost Pipefish, Snake Eel, Flying Gurnard, Guitar Fish, Conger Eel, Pygmy pipehorse, Juvenile fish (macro), Trevally, Bluespotted Stingray, Kuhls Stingray, Flounder

Water Type

Salt

Maximum Depth 32 feet / 10 meters

Entry

ShoreShore/Beach

Common SightingsSharks, Whales, Dolphins, Turtles

Water Type

Salt

Maximum Depth 32 feet / 10 meters

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