House-Diving-Area (shore dives)

Six interesting diving-spots, to reach comfortably, with solid steps and platforms

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Overview Map Housereef

Easy Track (One Way Dive)
From the entrance at the door of the base, right shoulder towards west, passing the "aquarium" in shallow water in front of the base (with all its vivacious inhabitants dancing to the rhythm of the tides), continuing into the blue and to the reef slope, letting yourself fall, towards the sand flats and their inhabitants and visitors, passing the "Eastern Rocks" and their marvels, letting the easy dive "fade away".

Eastern Rocks
Meeting point of different school fishes .
The place with the most fish....
Here you can find, with a little bit of luck, our big dusky-house- and also our second species of grouper. And of course much more animals can be discovered between the beautiful stone-block-formations.

Our Night Dives are at the dive sites:
Easy Track, Eastern Rocks or at the Canyon Reef
Immersion in a quiet, fascinating world of twilight - Well-known dive sites rediscover and experience! Hunting, resting and sleeping animals...watch crustaceans of different species, cephalopods can be in different forms & shapes, scools of sandsmelts in the lamplight, enjoy the magic of the bioluminescence...

Moray`s Wall
A wall directly in front of the Diving Center offers depths of 6m until maximum 25m.
The reef, which requires many dives, in order to be discovered. Here are all fish-types represented, also our local house-moray, anemones in all colours and if the Manta-rays are coming, then to this reef in front of the door. The tunnel placed directly under the entry rounds off the dive.
Our night dives take place also here.

Rocha Grande
..benannt nach unseren „großen Felsen“, dient dieser als markanter Orientierungspunkt auf den Weg zur Höhle oder unserer tiefsten Stelle am Hausriff in Richtung Westen.
..besonders bei ruhigem Wasser interessant, mit all seinen Bewohnern der Flachwasserzonen und den schutzaufsuchenden, aufwachsenden Jungfischen.
Zurück zum Ausstieg...zeit nehmen und den Tunnel am Tage mit seinen Nachtaktiven Bewohnern genauer erkunden...

Ponta da Oliveira
protracted rock-tongue with steep-wall leads until a depth of 30m.
On the sand bottom stand out numerous of Garden eels searching for food, and the Atlantic damselfish is dancing in the current. Our biggest club tipped-anemone with it’s faithful red-backed-cleaner-shrimps is waiting for your visit.

Canyon Reef
Heavenly rock-formations with deep Canyons and splits pulled through.
The reef extends from 4m until into the maximum depth of 23m.
Here, we meet frequently locust lobster, morays and big schools of different fish-types, with some luck schools of Barracudas.

Atalaia Cave
easily to dive because of it’s dimension, about 35m long, 15m wide and the maximum depth is about 12m.
There we meet the inhabitants which are living in the darkness, like the Red-reef-lobster, Atlantic-dancing-shrimps, cardinal fishes and frequently also the mighty warty-umbrella-snail.
At the end of the cave you can ascend in a big, with air filled dome.
With luck, you meet one of the really rare monk-seals inside.