We were able to dive our last day because our flight doesn't leave until 2:55pm leaving enough time for 3 dives! 2 tanks at East Coast diving and a final one at Bari's reef and it was a spectacular day of diving.
On the first dive at Funchi, we saw 25+ turtles, 4-5 eagle rays including one that swam straight towards me, 3 large moray eels including one that was swimming out on the reef, a lobster, goldentail eel, sharptail eels, and 2 southern rays.
But the second dive was really the most amazing - a seahorse!! And in the sand holding on to a piece of debris, not even the branching coral. This was in the white hole which is a little shallow sandy area on the east side where baby fish and resting fish go. We saw tons of tarpons, a group of barracudas, and queen conch. They we passed over this shallow surf area to exit the white hole and went to downtown turtle City. We saw 40-50 turtles. At one point, I counted 11 turtles in front of me.
I saw a gimpy turtle missing a right back flipper and a turtle with a fibroma in front of it's right eye. I felt so bad for that turtle. I don't know how he'll make it if he can't see from the right side :( I had to stop looking at him.
After our great East side dives, we had a wrap from the Caribe truck again - chicken with garlic and spicy sauce and the fresh lemonade, perfect after dive lunch! And the guy is very entertaining.
We did a final dive at Bari's reef but to the left this time (did the right side on our first dive). We swam all the way to the Front Porch site. We saw so much - 5 peacock flounders, small turtle, baby lionfish, Mom and baby drumfish, goldentail eel and many arrow crabs. And after the dive we learned that there were 2 octopus under the pier and so I jumped in and took pictures of them free diving.
What an awesome day!
