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Point Break - Dive Site of Northern Dominica |
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| Point Break .....at Cape Capucin. Situated at the very northern tip of Dominica and named after the Capuchin monks who wore pointy hats. Well here it is .The place where you can dive in two different seas, the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea at the same time! We anchor the boat in the usually sheltered cove where we begin the dive in just 15ft.Slow finning West around great ancient slabs embedded in sand takes us to the sandy slope at 40ft where we find a garden of eels spreading out quite some distance , who hide back in their holes when you come close. Great boulders lie strewn all around to our right, leftovers from when the unmistakeable rock, which is the point of Capucin, burst its way out into the atmosphere all those thousands of years ago. Follow the sand north and it gets deeper as we look at the encrusted boulders on our right , with unmistakably different types of corals and sponges beginning to appear as the line between the two oceans is blurred and fused together. Black feather hydroids sway back and forth and shoals of file past like they're in a hurry as we glide around these rocks into the Atlantic. Depending on how strong the current is determines how far we can go around before heading back....or sometimes drift around when the ocean is calmer….. we return into the Caribbean via an open swim-through, keeping a lookout for sting rays. |
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