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PETER ISLAND hill where pirates once kept lookout for passersby. The pirates didn’t
CARROT SHOAL 15’-60’ (5-21m) Int. A rock platform rises from know about it’s colorful tube sponges sea fans.
bottom forming the shoal. It has rocks resembling railroad cars in ANGELFISH REEF 25’-80’ (8-24m) Int.-Adv. Lots of colorful cor-
size and shape. Big pelagics, green morays, and Spanish and spotted als make a garden above the sandy bottom, with southern stingrays,
lobsters are found here. green sea turtles, barracuda, angelfishes and moray eels.

SHARK POINT 25;-80’ (8-24m) Adv. This site is an underwater ridge
with fire coral on top. Black durgon, barracuda, horse-eye jacks, and
turtles are common.

WRECK OF THE FEARLESS 60’-80’ (18-24m) Int.-Adv. This 100’
wooden boat was sunk in 1985 to make a reef. Marine life encrusts the
boat and black coral trees below.

MT. SAGE NATIONAL PARK Most of this park is above 1000’ eleva-
tion, making it moist and giving it the ability to support a rain-forest
like ecosystem. This high ridge is one of the few spots to find a likeness
of the original forests of the Virgin Islands. Mt. Sage is the highest
point in the Virgin Islands.

NORMAN ISLAND (TREASURE ISLAND)

BROWN PANTS 10’-40’ (3-12m) Adv. Pristine canyons and caves
on the edge of the deep blue are full of barracuda, eagle rays, turtles,
sharks and tons of black durgon.

RINGDOVE ROCK 15’-70’ (5-21m) Int. This pinnacle reef has lots
of gorgonians and sea fans, sponges, butterflyfishes, rock beauties, ser-
geant majors and trumpetfish.

SPYGLASS WALL 10’-60’ (6-18m) Beg. This is a mini-wall below the