For many who come to the BVI, you don’t know what to expect diving wise. I was certainly one of those people when I came to work for Dive BVI based in Virgin Gorda on the tiny British Virgin Islands. For one, the dving here CAN be strenuous, so make sure you go with a reputable dive operator OR have a experience diver or guide on board your charter vessel. The dives can also be remarkable easy and are a PERFECT first dive holiday for a newly certified diver.  The key is to choose sites well, and check on the current- this is where you dive operator or guide comes in handy.

I have been lucky enough to find beautiful seahorses here in the BVI. Once at a site called Chromis Reef  (named after the blue Chromis fish that inhabit there) and a few times on the impressive RMS Rhone wreck. Don’t worry, I am not too much of a wreck fan, but this one is impressive. With over 100 years of growth it satisfies not only the wreck lover, but the reef lover as well (myself included). Small inverts and tine juvenile species call this wreck home, I have seen juvenile trunk fish,… so cute…. Tiny octopi, clown crabs and many more cool species here, and for the past month this Longsnout Sea horse (Hippocampus reidi). It was a treat for me to see these interesting creatures, as I never encountered one during my thousands of dives in The Bahamas. Yes, I saw the odd tiny dried out one that had attached itself to a boat rope and unfortunately been pulled out of its home perished from the Bahamian sun.  Currently, this yellow fella is clinging happily onto various tube sponges near the RMS Rhone. He keeps us guides guessing on his location, as is still a challenge to find him! In fact I am not sure if it is male or female, but that is what makes seahorses to interesting…. The males are the one to carry and give birth to the young. A feet us ladies I am sure would love to see passed to us humans ;)