Salt Cay scuba diving - a reason for your vacation
Surface water temperatures range from 77-83 degrees. Visibility is usually 100 feet, often more. Currents are light. Salt Cay has 14 moored dive sites Here are just a few of the sites you'll have to explore: Rookery 40-130 Deepwater gorgonians, sand bowls, Nassau and Tiger groupers; nurse sharks. Northwest Drop-Off 30-130 Purple tub sponges, barrel sponges, black coral, pillar coral. Black Coral Canyon 50-130 A gorge carved into the face of the wall. Black coral, yellow tube sponges, rope sponges. Undercut ledge at a sand shelf. Kelly's Folly 25-130 Large schools of Blue Tangs, Bermuda Chub, Ocean Triggers, Goatfish and grunts. Turtle Gardens 25-130 Fields of coral interspersed by sand, hawksbill turtles. Point Pleasant 15-130 Caverns; huge corals; spotted eagle rays, African Pompano, Tarpon, nurse sharks. Excellent snorkeling. Endymion 10 - 40 Unsalvaged 18th century British warship. Divers can explore the wreck of the HMS Endymion off Salt Cay, which went down in a storm in 1790. Two centuries later, Brian Sheedy, a local diver and inn operator, discovered the wreck. Today, while the reef has reclaimed the hull and all else that was biodegradable, divers can still get a close-up look at its 18 coral- and sponge-encrusted cannons and nine huge anchors lying about. Resting in just 12m (40 ft.) of water, it's one of the region's most popular snorkel and dive sites. The Northwest Wall, Kelly's Folly, and Turtle Garden offer wall diving at its finest -- and all of these dive sites are 5 to 10 minutes from the Salt Cay dock. Huge gorgonians, soft coral, and sponges form a backdrop for a family of spotted eagle rays, turtles, pelagics, and dolphins. A green moray eel whose head is at least .3m high (1 ft.), his huge body and tail wrapped in and out of a rock formation, can often be seen at Northwest Wall and Rockery. Divers can observe conch working their way up a timeworn trail on the wall. Night-dive with fluorescent strings of pearls threading their way through the water, sleeping turtles, slipper lobsters, huge crabs, nurse sharks, and a seasonal array of other night critters.
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