| The Forest |
 Known
for it's giant soft corals, this is an excellent shallow second dive. Sea
plumes, sea whips, sea fans and gorgonians constantly sway in the ever present
surge, the surf breaking on the rocks of the nearby shore. There is a channel
along the rocks where you can watch the waves breaking overhead. |
| The Garden |
 The
Garden is full of corals, both hard and soft. |
| The Wall |
 Massive
cliffs protrude into open sea, and beneath them, the undersea extension
has a lushness that rivals the topside verdant flora. The wall is full of
black corals in various forms and colors. Gorgonians are huge and lacy,
interspersed with barrel and vase sponges. A steady stream of chromis and
creole wrasse give this gorgeous scene vitality. The red banded lobster
from the cover of Paul Humann's Reef Creatures book can be photographed
here. |
| The Seimstrand |
 The
Seimstrand is an intact 120 foot long coastal freighter lying in 85 feet
of water in Kingstown Harbour. Sunk in 1984, she is a refuge for all types
of fish. Off her stern is an ancient wreck of unknown origin, marked by
2 cannons and an anchor. |
| The Nomad |
 The
Nomad wreck |
| Orca Point |
This site is full of critters and creatures
and makes an excellent night  dive.
It is a wonderful area for macro photography, as on a typical dive you will
see several types of seahorses, fingerprint flamingo tongues, frog fish,
crabs, a variety of shrimp in their anemones, peacock flounders. The site
offers varying depths from 20 to 120 feet and the best way to explore it
is to start out on the deep side and work your way to the shallow boulders
with swarming fish. |
| Orca II |
 Orca
II has the best of both worlds! It has a beautiful live reef on one portion
of the dive with all kinds of living coral, crinoids, many types of shrimp,
schools of reef fish and lobsters, perfect for new divers as well as divers
looking for photos of healthy reefs. The other side of the dive site is
muck diving. Here we find some of the unusual critters we are famous for.
At this time we have a nice big (2") brotula that greets us under the
boat near the mooring. Pikeblennies, flying gurnards box crabs, an occasional
lined sea horse, plus other neat residents are awaiting. This site is a
nice place for a dive group where some take photos and some don't. The non-photogs
can go to the real reef and the photogs can go to the muck. Everyone wins! |
| Critter Corner |
Papua New Guinea made muck diving famous,
but there is no need to  travel
half-way around the world when .St. Vincent offers the same quality muck
diving right in the Caribbean . Critter Corner is a wonderful 12-foot dive
offering everything from blue-throated pike blenny to flying gunards, to
long manned seahorses to all types of pistol shrimp to cardinal fish and
other exotic marine animals you have always wanted to photograph. Photographers
will be limited by battery life and film exposures, not bottom time or subject
matter |
| The Steps |
 This
site is located below the steep cliffs of Fort Charlotte by some "steps"
entering the sea. This is the area where the residents of the fort came
to bathe. Here you can find red-lipped bat fish walking around in the dark
volcanic coloured sand. Yellowheaded jaw fish have built their burrows here
and fingerprint flamingo tongues seem to be on every gorgonian in the area. |
| Bat Cave |
 A
shallow rocky passageway cut through the reef that led into a cave chamber
inside the cliff. Lift your head in the eerie half-light, you will hear
the screeching of bats and glimpse them swooping. Continue on the tour which
will lead you through the cave to the opposite side where a narrow, deep
fissure exits to the reef. Hordes of copper sweepers lazily meandered about
the passageway, almost obscuring the view towards the reef. |
| New Guinea Reef |
 The
sub sea terrain drops rapidly, and at about 100 feet, there are some lovely
stands of black coral in shades of hot pink and red! The variety and species
of black coral here is astounding. There are bush, whip and fern species
with a profusion of intense colors. Nowhere was this more exemplary,
the showcase of St. Vincent's underwater topography. Bill Tewes named it
because of it's resemblance to a South Pacific reef where he formerly had
a dive operation. |
| Bottle Reef |
 Another
unique site just below the cliff where Fort Charlotte stands. There is an
interesting collection of rum and gin bottles that were discarded from the
fort above. The wall slopes sharply just past this bottle graveyard. |
| Coral Castle |
 Only
about 20 yards from shore, the drop off is formed by terraced hard corals.
The massive layering of corals looked sculpted, and it was adorned with
gorgonians and sponges, completing the designed effect. The reef dropped
away at about 75 degree angle to a sand void at about 125 feet. There is
an abundance of small tropicals, but no large fish. |
| Turtle Bay |
Huge pieces of volcanic rock had tumbled
from the cliff above and had  become
the basis for the encrusting reef. Large fields of yellow tube sponges covered
the rocks, creating a bright backdrop for the wrasses and damsels. Sea horses
and frog fish are found at both sites, as well as red-lipped bat fish. Yellowhead
jaw fish live in the sand and certain times of the year can be seen aeriating
their eggs which they hold in their mouths. |
| Anchor Reef |
 Anchor
reef is a deep black coral garden on the edge of a wall with a tunnel at
35 feet where blackbar soldierfish congregate. The reef top here is covered
with colourful encrusting and rope sponges. There are a variety of eels,
you can often spot squid and there are seahorses living amongst the gorgonians. |
| Pinnacle |
Currents sweep this oblong pinnacle rising
from the sea floor to a  depth
of about 25 feet., therefore you must pick the right time to dive this site.
Because of the almost constant swirling currents, an abundance of plankton
brings a constant food source to this knob, making it a heavenly spot for
unusual critters. Long lure frog fish can be found living in sponges with
the same colours, so as to cleverly camouflage themselves while waiting
for an unsuspecting meal to happen by. Scorpionfish and even seahorses have
been spotted here. |
