Dive #201 - Rich Torkington's Dive Log

Found this Carribean reef squid beneath the boat.
Videograph by Rich Torkington in BVI 2004

Dive Journal: We enjoy our surface interval talking with John on the boat, and he motors it only a short distance east to another separate island called Green Cay. The dive site here is quite similar to the previous dive at Twin Towers, equally beautiful with attractive boulders and canyons to navigate through.

We immediately check out nice schools of tangs, goats, and sergeant majors. Several large barracudas followed us around but kept a distance. We find several juvenile spotted drums, and then some spanish mackerel and horse-eye jacks. At another rock wall, we find a swarm of sergeant majors, and then a big school of chub.

John leads us ono a big circular pathway around the canyons, and eventually takes us on a surprise swimthrough passage on the way back to the boat (surprise because it wasn’t part of the dive briefing). We then use our remaining air beneath the boat exploring, eventually finding 4 reef squid. Linda also saw an octopus on this dive.

John takes a direct route southeast on his return to Tortola, vectoring between Green Cay and Little Jost Van Dyke, and zips over some extremely shallow waters that are peppered with rocks. We scrape a couple of times, no big deal.

For more notes about our stay on Tortola, check out the previous dive.