Fajardo scuba diving - a reason for your vacation
Curious about diving? Serious about diving? La Casa del Mar has the perfect trip ready for you! Join us in one or more of our great variety of fun activities and exciting trips! Come an experience a new world of colorful life and spectacular views. Take a trip to see the beautiful walls, reefs and coral formations. Watch Spotted Eagles and Southern Stingrays as they fly through the water! The underwater world will unfold and come alive before your eyes! Take a dip in the breathtaking bio-luminescent colored waters. It brightens up your way to see the exciting underwater night life. See lobsters running from their enemy octopus! See sea snakes hunting for food! Watch the parrot fish as they sleep in their coccons! Come and see the world's most spectacular bioluminescent bay. Your evening starts at 6:30 PM where you board our 46' Newton Boat and shove-off on an astonishing panoramic route to the north side of Vieques. Along the way you can help yourself to snacks and refreshments as you watch the sun setting on our beautiful island. Upon arrival transportation will be awaiting for you. After a short trip you arrive at the bay where your adventure awaits. You will be amazed at the breathtaking sight of the water as it suddenly takes life as you kayak or ride a electric boat along the bay with one of our guides. We strongly suggest taking a dip in the warm glowing water. The memories will last a lifetime. Big Rock/Little Rock: Depth 35 - 80 feet - Are you looking for buried treasure? You might find it here among the remnants of boat wrecks, as well as in the round coral mounds with a mud bottom and a reef that reaches to the shore of Cayo Palomino. Or maybe the real treasures are the sea creatures including abundant grouper, schools of blue tang, goatfish, Bahama bluerunners, conch, stingrays, hog snapper, mutton snapper, stoplight parrotfish, snake and moray eels. Cayo Diablo: DEPTH: 45 - 50 feet - You can't always get there (because of swells and high wind), but when you can, Cayo Diablo is the place to be. A fringing reef wraps the island in rings of hard and soft corals. Mild and strong currents carry in schools of barracuda and the occasional eagle ray along with clear, beautiful water. There's also beach for surface intervals with excellent snorkeling right in front. Lobos: DEPTH: 6 - 35 feet - Where do you go to find yellowtail snapper, huge schools of blue tangs, sergeant majors, dolphins, stingrays, spotted eagle rays, anemones, reef lobsters, toad fish and octopus? Check out the mouth of the Atlantic and Caribbean that features clusters of elkhorn, sheet, golf ball, thumb and fire coral mounds with a sandy bottom. The Wall: DEPTH: 15 - 75 feet - why imagine a living wall when you can see it? Sheet and thumb coral with spots of fire coral create a "wall," with various species of sponges and sea fans waving between the corals. Queen trigger and trigger fish, cowfish, boxfish, grouper to schools of goatfish, and mutton snapper hiding amongst the sea whips are also part of the mix as well as spotted eagle rays, lobster, spotted drums and lots of parrotfish. Dolphin Point: DEPTH: 45 - 60 feet - Sure, you'll find dolphins here on the sandy bottom with clusters of sheet coral. But you'll also find yourself in the company of barracuda, grouper, red hind, trumpetfish, squirrelfish, eels, several species of snapper, and schools of blue tangs, sergeant majors, Bahama bluerunners and sardines. Spurs: DEPTH: 15 - 65 feet - Are you looking for dramatic formations of sheet coral in the form of small caves and overhangs? Then visit the sand channels with coral mounds from 15 to 45 feet with a small wall that drops off down to 65 feet. The sand channels run East to West with the wall running North to South, and they're filled with octopus, parrotfish, eels, groups of spotted eaglerays, stingrays, schools of squid, lobster (including reef and shovel nose). And speaking of drama: in March and April, Spurs is a calving area for dolphin. In February, its on the migratory path for pilot whales. At all other times of the year, it's a haven for grouper, barracudas, cowfish, and boxfish. Hourglass: DEPTH: 25 - 50 feet - On the sandy bottom running East to West with coral mounds on North and South sides, you'll find sheet corals, thumb corals, and some elk corals and staghorn corals with outcroppings of sponges. Tiny caves are home to octopus, grouper, eels, squirrelfish, silversides and puffers, and beyond those caves you'll find many types of snapper, bahama bluerunners, little nurse sharks, conch, lobster, boxfish and squid.
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