Dive #240 - Rich Torkington's Dive Log

Happy hour at the Full Moon Bar following our dive - SWEET!
Photograph by Full Moon Bar bartender in the USVIs 2006

Dive Journal: Our second dive today takes us to Sprat Hole, also north of the Fredericksted pier. This is a shallow water reef dive that is just teeming with fish, particularly blue chromis and creole wrasses.

There are several splendid turtles on this dive, and one of them continued to forage along with us during most of the dive. Of course, it would have been a terrific video opportunity, but I was out of tape – sigh.

A white spotted moray entertained us for a while, and I eventually discovered some ultra tiny sergeant majors hanging out beneath a big abandoned Navy mooring buoy.

I experience a first on this dive. Down on the reef, I am for the first time successful in getting a Pederson cleaner shrimp to jump onto my hand at a cleaning station – cool! Just a bit later, I am also successful in getting a little blue-lined goby to jump onto my fist, and then onto my forearm. All right! Nice reef!

Following the dives, we hit the nearby Turtle Cafe just south of the pier in Fredericksted and enjoy delicious deli sandwiches.

Tonight, we end up going to the Full Moon Beach Bar at Cane Bay. It is located just across the street from Cane Bay and just next to the Cane Bay Dive Shop. Pretty crowded tonight, so we have to wait a while for a table, but the food is decent and the atmosphere just right.