Scuba Diving in Cairns, Great Barrier Reef, Australia – Tracey’s Bommie, Flynn reef

Dive Site: Tracey’s Bommie
Location: Flynn Reef, Cairns (16°43’S 146°16‘)
Description: Reef
Depth: 6 – 30 metres (20 – 100 feet)

Visibility: 15 – 25 metres (50 – 80 feet)

This dive site offers something for everyone and is suitable for beginner – intermediate divers. The shallows are excellent for snorkellers with plenty of small and colourful fish such as clownfish making their home amongst the corals. Maori wrasse are also frequent and delightful visitors. The site drops off around the back of the bommie into deeper water – a common area for sighting cruising reef sharks and eagle rays. The variety of this site makes it very popular with photographers.

Scuba Diving in Cairns, Great Barrier Reef, Australia – Three Sisters,Flynn Reef

Dive Site: Three Sisters
Location: Flynn Reef, Cairns
Description: Reef
Depth: 16 – 27 metres (52 – 89 feet)

Visibility: 25 metres (80 feet)

As divers drop in from the boat they are met with the sight of an awesome blue lagoon underneath them and upon heading over to the Three Sisters they may come across metre long white-tip shark in the sand. The other marine life includes turtles, tunas, trevallies, blue spotted rays, damselfish and butterflyfish . All these fish can be viewed against a back drop of soft coral and gorgonian fans.

Scuba Diving in Cairns, Great Barrier Reef, Australia – Gordon’s Mooring,Flynn Reef, Cairns (16°43’S 146°16′)

Dive Site: Gordon’s Mooring
Location: Flynn Reef, Cairns (16°43’S 146°16′)
Description: Reef / night dive
Depth: 5 – 22 metres (16 – 72 feet)
Visibility: 15 – 30 metres (50 – 100 feet)

Gordon’s Mooring has some great swim-throughs and overhangs amongst the variety of smaller bommies. It is very popular with photographers as it boasts a wide range of corals and marine life with plenty of sunlight. Deeper areas of the site provide a stunning blue backdrop for photos. Highlights include several well established giant clams, clown fish, turtles and reef sharks. The shallows are excellent for snorkellers.

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Scuba Diving in Cairns, Great Barrier Reef, Australia – Coral Garden, Flynn Reef

Dive Site: Coral Garden
Location: Flynn Reef, Cairns
Description: Reef
Depth: 25 metres (82 feet)
Visibility: 15 – 20 metres (50 – 65 feet)

At Coral Garden a wall to dropped away to a depth of 26m with a huge sandy lagoon at the base that had a white-tip swimming around in it and a big star pufferfish. A highlight of the dive was seeing an eagle ray in the slight current at the corner and seeing a shoal of trevally and a big potato cod. We swam gently back over lovely green cabbage coral and brain coral surrounded by lots of sweetlips and fusiliers.

Scuba diving in Tanzania – Kokota, Pemba

Dive Site: Kokota

Location: Kokota, Pemba, Tanzania

Description: Reef / night dive

Depth: 15 metres (50 feet)

Visibility: 10 metres (30 feet)

Kokota Reef is an ideal spot for an out and back night dive, swimming away from the boat and back to it. It is a gently sloping shallow reef with a sandy floor covered with coral outcrops. The reef at night is very different to Pemba’s reefs during the day with most of the fish hiding away in the coral, being replaced by active sea urchins crawling along the sand, hermit crabs and shrimps out feeding and a lot of feather stars on display. There are also coral parrotfish and pufferfish to be seen here.

Scuba Diving in Cairns, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Dive Site: Gordon’s Mooring
Location: Flynn Reef, Cairns (16°43’S 146°16′)
Description: Reef / night dive
Depth: 5 – 22 metres (16 – 72 feet)
Visibility: 15 – 30 metres (50 – 100 feet)

Gordon’s Mooring has some great swim-throughs and overhangs amongst the variety of smaller bommies. It is very popular with photographers as it boasts a wide range of corals and marine life with plenty of sunlight. Deeper areas of the site provide a stunning blue backdrop for photos. Highlights include several well established giant clams, clownfish, turtles and reef sharks.

Aturtle around for a bit and passed some pipefish and plenty of fusiliers. On a night dive here we found another massive turtle in a cave. On the other side of the bommie was a huge painted crayfish and to my surprise a red bass took out a rainbow wrasse that my torch had stunned!