Soller Bay on Mallorca

Dive the Sisters

Diving at Speyside

Saturday, October 18th

At 8:00 AM the pick-up from the Extra Divers arrives at the hotel and takes us to the dive base, where we get our equipment ready right away.

Today's trip takes us to Speyside to the famous Sisters, four rock formations rising from the sea.
Along the way we stock up on cake from Jimmy's Supermarket and pick up another diver during the 100-minute drive along the winding coastal road.

We head straight to the jetty where the divers from the Extra Divers base in Speyside are already waiting for us.

With the handbrake pulled, the captain carefully steers the 300 HP boat through the rough sea. We round the northern tip of the island of Tobago in waves over two meters high.

Dive the Sisters

We get ready to dive and jump in. Unfortunately, visibility is somewhat limited due to the rough sea of recent days.
Nevertheless, we see the most diverse species of beautiful corals, from small moray eels to a 3.5-meter green giant moray, a
spiny lobster, barracudas, cleaner shrimps, longnose butterflyfish, triggerfish and parrotfish, a turtle, and various large schools of fish.
After 55 minutes, a beautiful dive with a maximum depth of 23.2 meters comes to an end.

Lunch Break at Parlatuvier

We head into a quiet bay for a lunch break at Parlatuvier.
Since we unfortunately don't have shoes with us, we skip the walk to a beautiful waterfall nearby.
After a good hour of relaxation on the beach, we head back to the Sisters for our second dive. All other dive sites are unfortunately not diveable today.

Dive the Sisters II

We now enjoy another beautiful dive in a rocky underwater world full of crevices. We dive through steep rock canyons, spot a large hawksbill turtle, plenty of hard and soft corals.

50 minutes later our second dive comes to an end as well. The maximum depth was 22.4 meters.

After a stormy ride along the coast with ups and downs, we reach solid ground again in Speyside.

Return to Crown Point

At the base we take care of our equipment and have a farewell beer before heading back. Markus drives us straight to the hotel and since it got quite late, he trustingly waived our payment. Overall, the atmosphere at the dive base was super pleasant.

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