Where are the seahorses?

[diver 85]

3 Rowed sea cucumber...

 

[traveljennie]

You will see turtles on almost any dive. One southern site that comes to mind is Salt Pier where we also saw an octopus.
We saw our one and only seahorse at Cha Cha Cha which is in front of Dive Friends -Yellow Sub. Ask inside the dive shop and they will tell you exactly where to find them.

ChaChaCha Beach is at the Dive Friends-Dive Inn location, not Yellow Sub. Both are great dive sites though. And do check with the shop at Dive Inn about where to find the sea horses. They told us that there were some frog fish around too, but we couldn't find them.

i have also seen turtles every time that we have dove at Cliff, dive site at Dive Friends Hamlet location.

 

[dfx]

From my limited experience, I'd vote for Karpata for turtles. Haven't found a seahorse yet but I've heard they can be found at the salt pier.

 

[djtimmy77]

On our last trip I found one at Red Slave. I was looking around for critters in the sand just above the reef line and it was hanging on to a dead remnant of sea fan if I recall correctly. It was a mottled black color, not particularly photogenic as far as seahorses go.

I have my suspicions on where there are probably a higher concentration of seahorses, but I doubt you are allowed to dive there.

 

[mbs]

We've run into big turtles south - Margate bay and Vista blue. Here's one from Vista Blue last year. The guy who runs the food truck down that way said it was mating season.

 

[diversteve]

I have my suspicions on where there are probably a higher concentration of seahorses, but I doubt you are allowed to dive there.

Probably not anymore since it's all silted out by the cruise ships sitting there idling on thrusters. I'd bet most of the firecup coral is gone also.

 

[djtimmy77]

Different location

 

[Steve_C]

Frog fish are incredibly good at blending into the scenery. A year ago I was in Hawaii. We saw a reasonably large frog fish on a bit of rock. I spent about 5 minutes taking close pictures of it. When all of a sudden the piece of rock next to it moved. There had been a second large one all along next to it and we never saw it until it moved.

 

[T.C.]

Got to Bonaire last Saturday and staying through next Saturday. Diving mainly southern site so far. We would like to find some seahorses and turtles before we go, can anyone recommend so sites that have a good chance of spotting these?

The ocean is a great place to start. I've tried looking on land, and have yet to find one.

I suggest looking very hard at the soft corals and anything they can wrap their tail around and hang on. Look around the base and lower limbs of dark colored soft corals, and take your time.

 

[Gdog]

Take Mike's advice, and learn to look where you are diving. Found one at Karpata that way.