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dge of Reality - Easy dive (10–14 meters) - A dive site close to the remote Sacred Islands, it’s a great site for less common fish
species and usually offers some pelagics.
E the desert island of Yavuriba, where the depths plunge from
2m to 30m over a sheer submarine cliff. Cruise the craggy west
wall scanning the blue for spanish mackerel and trevally, before S herwood Forest - Intermediate dive (14–24 meters) - Swim out
turning on to the gentler north slopes, with some tight swim- on the northern side of the pinnacles through forests of gor-

throughs, hard coral patches, and usually whitetip reef sharks. gonian sea fans. Majestic as they sway in the current breeze pause

There is always a good chance of seeing Hawksbill turtles and to check out fish that live in and around them: large trumpet fish,

eagle rays. banded pipefish, coral trout, many spotted sweetlips and mar-

D unk’s Canyon - Easy/Intermediate dive (12–16 meters) - Dunk’s bled groupers. The tops of the pinnacles are swarming in fish life:
Canyon is an exciting wall dive. The edge of the drop off is sergeant majors, surgeonfish, unicorn fish, fusiliers, wrasses, ban-
nerfish and damselfish. On good visibility days look out for scad

alive with reef fish and soft and hard corals and the wall plunges mackerels, barracuda, trevally and spanish mackerels.

steeply into over 30m of deep blue water. With its location near