One of my many vices is diving in the dark. Tonight I got the chance to be present at the shift change - when the day shift ends and the reef night shift begins. Diving with a relatively inexperienced French PADI instructor still keen to get a variety of different dives under his belt.
There was 10 euro premium for a night dive, but experience has told me that it is money well spent.
Calimera Reef was just outside the hotel gates and it at about 8 metres deep it's an ideal beginners site, but I had doubts about how good it would be. I can say with all honesty that it wasn't the best dive I've ever done, but it was pretty good.
It started well, in mostly daylight with a cuttlefish scuttling away from us towards reef fish looking for a place to hole up for the evening. As we continued reef fish gave way to sea cucumbers, octopus, moray eels, crustaceans and diadem sea urchins.
We stayed down for around an hour before slowly returning in dark to the entry point. It was then when the dive highlights presented themselves - a roaming stingray and a seahorse galloping across its rock home.
As we walked back to the hotel the Maxi suggested that he liked night diving, I agreed.
 |
| Octopus |
 |
| Sea cucumber |
 |
| Seahare |
 |
| Moray Eeel |
 |
| Scorpion fish |
 |
| Seahorse |
No comments:
Post a Comment