| This Page is dedicated to our dive with Turtles at the Caves |
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| There are 8 Species of Sea Turtle, 5 can be seen in the Maldives, the two we saw in the Maldives were the Hawksbill and the Green Turtle. (Below) Is our first sighting of a Green Turtle in a cave ! All turtles you see are green turtles |
| There are several differences between the Hawksbill and Green turtle. The first is the green has two prefrontal scales, the Hawksbill has four. |
| Another turtle resting in a cave |
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| Getting an underside view, this is a green turtle (below) becasue it is so clean |
| The other difference is that the Carapace "Shell" on the Green turtle looks smooth whereas the Hawksbill has overlapping scales |
| Two scary looking Blacksddle groupers, check the teeth out !!! |
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| Underwater, Coral has many different shapes and fantastic colours |
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| The turtle (Below) swimming away for air is a female, the differnce between sexes is that you can see the males sexual organ between his legs ! |
| The Turtles |
| The Other Sitings |
| A common Porcupine fish, the spines can be seen on its back, wow these would hurt !! |
| A Gonzoid fish, a very unique spot !!! |
| A lovely Powder-Blue Surgeon fish, Superb Blue coulouring |
| A rare sight of a Napoleon Wrase, these fish are huge and can grow to 6ft long ! |
| The view of our villas after a truly great dive at Caves |
| Rosa, our instructor on the course, she was a fish !!! She has completed over 2,500 dives in 10 years !! |