Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
ACTIVITIES
Look out for the free monthly
What's On
guide
,
which can be found in most hotel lobbies
and outside many retail outlets. The guide details a lot of upcoming events and sporting
matches as well as containing discount coupons for plenty of tourist activities.
Diving & Snorkeling
New Providence has excellent diving close to its shores, including fantastic wall and wreck
dives. The most noted sites lie off the southwest coast between Coral Harbour and Lyford
Cay, as well as north of Paradise Island.
The most famous Nassau dives are definitely
Shark Wall
and
Shark Arena
, where
divers watch clouds of hungry sharks descend for feedings just feet away.
At
Anchor Reef
a coral head pokes out of a wall 60ft below the surface, and teems with
fish life. At
School House
, another favorite snorkeling and diving spot, there are endless
varieties of coral at depths that rarely exceed 20ft. Fish life ranges from blennies and gobies
to schooling yellowtail.
Divers love the
Lost Blue Hole
. This vertical cavern gapes in 30ft of water on a sand
bottom and is frequented by nurse sharks and stingrays. The cave bells out to 200ft and
deeper. There's a lobster-filled cavern at 80ft.
Oasis Wall
, a deep dive just off Old Fort
Beach, is known for reef corals all the way down to 200ft. There's plenty of lobster and
pelagics, too.
The spectacular
Razorback
is named for the arcing ridge of coral-covered limestone that
rises from a sand bottom before plummeting into the bottomless Tongue of the Ocean. The
reef is a menagerie of fish and the wall attracts hammerhead sharks. Equally spectacular is
the
Valley
, a path leads you through a labyrinth of coral and marine life to the Tongue of
the Ocean, just over the ridge.
Stuart Cove's Dive & Snorkel Bahamas
SUBMARINE TOUR
( 242-362-4171;
www.stuartcove.com
; Southwest Rd) One of the Bahamas' best and
largest dive operators, Stuart Cove's offers a mass of diving, PADI certification and
snorkeling choices, including a bone-rattling shark wall and shark-feeding dive ($150); a
two-tank dive trip ($109); and a three-dive 'Seafari' trip to the blue holes and plunging
walls of Andros island ($225). Non-divers can snorkel (adult/child $65/30) or - better yet!
- pilot their own SUB (Scenic Underwater Bubble), a scooter with air wheels and a giant
plastic bubble that envelops your shoulders and head ($119).
Bahama Divers
DIVING, SNORKELING
