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Paradise Reef
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Dive Site:
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Breaking Patches
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Location:
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16°35.095S 145°58.275E
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Visited By:
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Passions of Paradise
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Depth:
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0-20 meters
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Rating:
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Novice
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Features:
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- A giant stride entry off the boat drops you into 15m to a sandy floor
- Choose from several sites including: The Wall, Peroxide Bommie or The Gap
- If you take a dinghy dive the Fish Market or North Point Drift
- Every site has a wall, pinnacle, rich coral head, edge or floor
- The sandy floor has sea cucumbers eating their way around
- Two Maori wrasse named Hamish and Ramus appear regularly and like affection
- See Christmas Tree worms, giant clams, anemones, clownfish, basslets, damsels and butterflyfish
- Hanging out from overhangs you can see lionfish
- Soft and hard coral add colour to the constant swarm of fish
- Plate and fan coral make up the majority of coral life in the shallow water
- The fish market houses larger trout, cod, parrotfish and wrasse join pelagics, such as barracuda and tuna
- Bommies rise from 25 to 2m, they provide swim-throughs and good overhangs
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Note: Latitude and longitude not to be used for navigational purposes - approx co-ords only.
