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Just got home from St Lucia, stayed 30 days in a Condo at Rodney Bay centrally located between Marina & Mall.
Dove 12 trips with Scuba Steve's/Dive St Lucia A Great outfit, Vernessa is the manager very well organized Romanis was Skipper most of the time, Dwight sometimes Skipper sometimes Dive guide along with Neal, Jonathon, Calvin, & Alton all very knowledgeable and very personable. the furthest North we dove was Anse Cochon the farthest South was Coral Gardens which is South of the Pitons and everything in between. Favorite sites was Supermans Flight, Fairyland,The Pinnacles, Coral Gardens , and Anse Chastanet. Down side 45-60 min boat ride one way. But a scenic ride. The Lucians are very enjoyable people.
Dove 12 trips with Scuba Steve's/Dive St Lucia A Great outfit, Vernessa is the manager very well organized Romanis was Skipper most of the time, Dwight sometimes Skipper sometimes Dive guide along with Neal, Jonathon, Calvin, & Alton all very knowledgeable and very personable. the furthest North we dove was Anse Cochon the farthest South was Coral Gardens which is South of the Pitons and everything in between. Favorite sites was Supermans Flight, Fairyland,The Pinnacles, Coral Gardens , and Anse Chastanet. Down side 45-60 min boat ride one way. But a scenic ride. The Lucians are very enjoyable people.
A person does not have to be staying in Rodney Bay to Dive with Scuba Steve/Dive St Lucia we picked Divers up at different docks in Marina at resorts like St James & Calabash and from the docks in Castries
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Sounds great. I remember the strong vertical reef wall at part of the Fairyland dive site from years ago. As I recall it was a really neat site. Just had 2 dives on a cruise ship stop (with Scuba Steve's, which I liked).
Did you do any rainforest hikes or other excursions? St. Lucia is such a lush, beautiful island.
Did you do any rainforest hikes or other excursions? St. Lucia is such a lush, beautiful island.
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Of note, marine life over there is somewhat unusual. On the plus side, crustaceans are very abundant and variable. Lots of huge clinging crabs, spotted lobsters, banded red lobsters, small shrimp like Pederson's and golden cleaning etc. Many Spotted morays and numerous Flying Gurnards in the shallows, I've never seen that many anywhere else. I counted 7 of the one day when snorkeling. Octopus, sea horses, frogfish were found too. There were some rarities, like I found a Golden Hamlet for the 1st time, though Newmann & DeLoach's book claims they are absent in the south Caribbean. On the down side, there are almost no angelfish there. Can you imagine a Caribbean reef with no angelfish? In 15 dives, I counted just 1 Queen and 1 French, both semi-juveniles, and maybe couple of Rock Beauties. Weird...Also, no Green morays, no groupers larger than 1 ft and no large parrotfish like Rainbow or Midnight. Sea turtles were few and they were very, very shy. Normally, I'd approach a turtle slowly to shooting distance and most ignore me or turn away slowly; I never chaise them. But this one turtle at St Lucia ran for her life when she saw me. I've never seen a turtle swimming so fast, must be a world record. Someone scared her to death previously.
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