Friday, June 18, 2010

Palau divesites day 3: Peleliu Dbed + Ngedebos Wall + Blue Corner



Still from Carp Island with Palau Divers we did these three dives:  In between I did a lot of snorkelling, sometimes the captain parked the boat over a nice wall just for us snorkelers.  Great service and very thoughtful!  Saw a ghost pipefish and many different stingrays while snorkelling, also sharks.  While transiting from one place to another, a school of about 30-40 dolphins followed us and swam + jumped in the bow wake - excellent!


Peleliu Dbed

26 meters max and 50 minutes.  Very nice wall with beautiful fans and whips, and then a valley with sharks sleeping on brain corals.  Eagle ray!  School of big bumphead parrots, a huge green turtle and several smaller green + hawksbill turtles.  A big cuttlefish lying on some corals with a nice blue nudibranch under it, an octopus. 




Ngedebos Wall

22 meters and 57 minutes.  LOVELY!  Beautiful place, could have stayed in one spot just checking the wall.  Big morays, many different nudibranches, small crabs all over.  Also sharks and turtles galore.  All kinds of fish!  Huge napoleons!




Blue Corner

22 meters and 48 minutes...  WOW!  A huge wow!  Drop down 1000 meters from the plain, huge everything!  Groupers, sharks, tunas, turtles...  Current 4-5 knots, so we had to use the hooks again.  A nice show!  So far my favourite place!  The sharks came really close, and so did the big groupers with nasty teeth...  When I say BIG groupers I mean over a meter...  No wonder this seems to be one of the best dive sites...  And it all depends from where you approach, the scenery changes a lot.  BEST DIVE EVER!!!!

Video:  Sharp teeth getting close   Blue corner shark encounter


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