...US snorkelling at STING RAY & SHARK ALLEY---40 minutes boat ride from CAYE CAULKER...
...snorkelling with NURSE SHARKS(they are no danger to human)...this area is known as STING RAY & SHARK ALLEY...we snorkelled with quite a few SHARKS & STING RAYS...
...we came across a group of 8 NURSE SHARKS resting on bottom of the ocean...some were up to 5 meters...bit scary for all of us but what a sight!
...we came across group of over 30 huge STING RAYS and SPOTTED EAGLE RAYS in just 10 feet of water under us...they were almost touching us as they were gently gliding pass us and they were in such playful mood...real magic...
...spotted EAGLE RAY...
...our guide OSCAR playing with group of STING RAYS...I had to remind him that STEVE IRWINE(crocodile hunter fame) was killed by STING RAY's tail as it punctured his heart couple of years ago...I was a bit scared as they were only couple of feet away...
...beautiful...
...a real dream come true to have seen this...
...couple of them had tails missing,lost in a fight may be or during an attack by another predator like shark...-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...DIVING in BELIZE...
...beautiful blue reef...
...here Pritti holding a CONCH...
...Dipak diving the reef......2 of our dives were at 20meters and BLUE HOLE dive was at 40 meters...
...STING RAY was resting on the bottom of the ocean but as we approched it took off...
...multi-coloured REEF ... FAN CORAL
...many fish of dazzling colours and varying sizes......we are both now certified OPEN WATER SCUBA DIVERS...we are hoping to go one stage further in near future to become ADVANCE SCUBA DIVERS and for that one needs to do five special dives like wreck and night dives etc with a scuba -master and if you pass then you are a certified ADVANCE SCUBA DIVER... we both have done one advance dive each already and so 4 more to go...
...Dipak & our Scuba-Master surrounded by BLUE CHROMIS fish...
...Dipak by the WALL---WALL is from where the sea dropps off in to darkness and unknown...we are at 22 meters and from here the sea goes down to over 1000 meters and when you see this darkness where no sun-light ever penetrates- everytime it use to send chill down my spine...
...it's him again...
...Pritti and Dipak at 20 meters...picture by our Dive-Master..
...and it's him again...
...beautiful STAGHORN CORAL...
...GIANT TUBE SPONGE...
...GIANT SEA CRAB...
...when you are diving you never really get scarred of any of the creatures that you see and most of the time they are only couple of feet away from you...but if you see something like that on land you run miles away...it's weird but it's true...
...Giant GREY ANGELFISH...
...ELIPTICAL STAR CORAL...
...LEAFY STINGING CORAL...
...SQUIRRELFISH amongst many diferent coral including SCROLL CORAL(yellow)...
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...THE BLUE HOLE is a tourism poster for BELIZE...it's where divers from all over the world come to dive...it's 400 feet deep and 1000 feet wide...it's a collapsed cave under the ocean...
...THE BLUE HOLE...
...this is exactly how it looked when we were there-deep BLUE...
(this picture taken from archive)
...unfortunatley this is the only picture from our BLUE HOLE DIVE as it was windy day and so water became murky with 5 meter or less visibility and we were 40 meters below the surface...
...BULE HOLE is known for it's number of SHARKS that one can see and we saw some 9 SHARKS in all here and some were huge over 25 feet perhaps...we think they were GREY CARIBBEAN SHARKS and others...we spent total of 25 minutes below the water...I am telling you I was shitting myself but it was great Adrenaline rush...
...in this dive we had to descend very fast to 40 meters using the wall as our marker,then you swim beneath a stalactite-laden overhang and that's where all the SHARKS were hanging out... heart stopping moment for me!...
2 comments:
Diving is the most exciting activity You can feel the immensity of the ocean. It's like traveling to another world. unexplained.This blog is amazing and very interesting.
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Hi,
Wow so beautiful! Belize is a superb place to get to know the ocean and its creatures. There is a great variety of reef types and diving and snorkeling experiences in Belize. The barrier reef is 185 meandering mile of unspoiled beauty. Belize is a good dive trip destination because if you do forget something, there are many fully equipped dive shops that offer rental and sales, as well as repairs. Thank you...
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