Curacao wildlife report

[TheDiveBus]

Hey folks,

Quick update on the vis:

Once we had opened up diving again this week, our divers were seeing 50 ft on day 1, and 80-odd ft thereafter. This is at the East sites, which are usually clearer when we have wind / current comes out of the West as we had.

YAY

All best
Suzy
The Dive Bus - WELCOME

 

[Diver OnLu]

New orange Seahorse @ Scooter! Discovered by Toeki last week, I had the chance to visit today - beautiful!

 

[Diver OnLu]

Cool diving at Playa Kalki, today: giant Yellowfin Tuna (1.5m) on the first dive in the morning, Harlequin Pipefish on the afternoon dive :b)

 

[Kukuisa]

We do not see them all the time, but they are out there: tiger groupers. Last week this one was lying inside a sponge and had no intention to go anywhere:

 

[Diver OnLu]

Hi Kukuisa.

I'm glad to see there is still someone adding to this wonderful thread after I left Curacao, thank you very much for posting the tiger grouper pic, I love it! And you are very right, they are rare around Curacao nowadays, I counted only 16 on my dives between April 2008 and December 2010.

Greetings from Germany
Andreas

 

[cubalake]

Anyone know the water temperature currently in Curacao? Need to know how much wet suit to pack. Thanks

 

[RV22]

I'm going to be there in a week and I'm only bringing a 3mm

 

[CuracaoJ]

Water temp was 27C surface and depth last weekend.

 

[Kukuisa]

The water temp was a chilling 26 this week. That's Celcius, but even in Fahrenheit it was only 79. At least the coral bleeching has stopped and most corals are back to nomal.
Today we met another inhabitant of our reefs:

 

[Curacao Sunshine]

Great photo, K! Love it!