Trip Report Trip Report 6-1 to 6-8
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caydiver
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Sounds like you had a great trip and you really squeezed in good weather compared to what was happening the week before and today hasn't looked that happy either. I love that you point out that you can have a great time here without breaking the bank. Early in May I flew back down from JFK for $129. It definitely can all work out. Next time you are at Calico's let me know. Its a hop, skip and a jump for us and once the day time crowd is back at the dock, it is a real local hangout.
We like to hit the beach at Calicos at least once a trip when staying up in West Bay as it gives us that beach visit and fun bar experience on the beach we don't get diving up in the ironshore. I also am a fan of the pan fried grouper with rice and beans and salad for I think 13 CI.
You can dive there, there is a public right away to the waterfront and the dive op will rent tanks to non-guests. We have shore dived there but finding a place to park is the hard part.
See this post from @ian.b -
https://www.scubaboard.com/community/posts/8263186/
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From what I have heard and seen Coconut Bay/Hepps is available if not staying there. Parking may be an issue though. I saw some divers come in with their car and unload gear right at the set up area and then move their car before gearing up and diving. I thought they were not staying at CBC. If you wanted to rent tanks from Duncan, shoot him an email for info and confirmation.
It took me 17 minutes to dive over to turtle reef but that was from CBC ladder, swimming half way out to the mooring ball (away from turtles reef) at Hepps Pipeline (2 min) and then diving to the mooring ball (1-2 min.) banging a left and following the mini wall to the two mooring buoys at Turtle (15 min). You could shorten your trip from Turtle by taking a compass bearing to a point between the turtle reef two moorings and the white mooring ball over at hepps and heading to the mini wall. You could avoid a longer surface swim this way. If you were to dive like you would at Turtle reef and head right along the mini wall it would take you about 20 minutes of diving to get to the Hepps Pipeline mooring ball but it would be diving the whole way with no surface swim required. Do these descriptions make any sense without a map? I would guess the surface swim from Turtle's cut to the Hepps Pipeline mooring ball is 10 mins.
It took me 17 minutes to dive over to turtle reef but that was from CBC ladder, swimming half way out to the mooring ball (away from turtles reef) at Hepps Pipeline (2 min) and then diving to the mooring ball (1-2 min.) banging a left and following the mini wall to the two mooring buoys at Turtle (15 min). You could shorten your trip from Turtle by taking a compass bearing to a point between the turtle reef two moorings and the white mooring ball over at hepps and heading to the mini wall. You could avoid a longer surface swim this way. If you were to dive like you would at Turtle reef and head right along the mini wall it would take you about 20 minutes of diving to get to the Hepps Pipeline mooring ball but it would be diving the whole way with no surface swim required. Do these descriptions make any sense without a map? I would guess the surface swim from Turtle's cut to the Hepps Pipeline mooring ball is 10 mins.
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