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Grenadines Encyclopedia
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Flamingo Bay Grenada
Picture: Rik Vercoe
Picture: Rik Vercoe
Location: Near Molinere, St Georges
Description: Reef / wall
Depth: 5 - 20 metres (16 - 66 feet)
Visibility: 15 metres (50 feet)
Rating: ***
A shallow reef wall covered in spiralling sea whips. Very chilled dive and the sea here is a very pleasant turquoise blue colour. Find some cleaner shrimp in a barrel sponge and some juvenile angelfish.
Carina Hall, PADI Divemaster
Flamingo Bay is an excellent divesite : Wall full of reef fish - Creole Wrasse, Yellow Chromis, Grunts and Jack Knife fish. At 90ft. Grouper, Jacks and Rays can be seen. The wall has whip coral, sponges and sea fans. Black Seahorses occasionally seen in shallower parts.
Reviews
The boat anchors in the shallow sand in the middle of the bay and the divers and snorkellers can swim off and explore the reef around its edge, which extends out to sea for 250m to a maximum depth of 30m.This means that a round trip back to the boat starts in 5m goes as deep as you wish by contouring along the reef at your chosen depth and then back along the top at 12m and them shallower as you swim back into the bay.
On the way out, in 20m ? 24m depth just off the reef a large shoal of southern senate are very often found circling and flashing silver as the sunlight reflects off there bodies.
The reef is abundant in fish, coral and sponges and inspires many who dive it as their first experience of scuba diving.
Beginner or experienced diver, this site is enjoyed by both. Source : Scuba Tech - Website
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