This
area is famous for its diving, snorkelling and having the largest sink hole in
the Caribbean. So we hired a scooter for 20CUCs and set off to explore. It was
impressive.
The
sink hole is like a salt water aquarium about the size of a public swimming
pool. The water is pristine clear and must be on a fault line of rock because
it descends down into a chasm 50, 100, 500 feet, I have no idea but it is
seriously deep. It also rises and falls with the tide and is populated with all
the fish you see on the reef so there must be a linking cave or passage to the
ocean just 200 yards away.
Snorkelling
on the reef is excellent and swim out 100 yards or so and you come to the
drop-off where the reef wall plunges down several hundred feet. I was hoping to
see this but swimming out it descended in steps until disappearing into the
deep so it wasn't easy to see. Of course the first person we meet when we came
back is a German who went to a different spot a mile a up the coast where you
paid to go in and the reef did plunge down and he saw huge fish, moray eels and
a shipwreck. Doh!
Tomorrow
we head for Trinidad farther down the coast.
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