Garden Island Resort's popular dives sites.
 
The Great White Wall: This dive is a legendary dive named because of the unusual soft coral that inhabit the area. Starting at a depth of about 50 feet (15 meters) and continuing to over 200 feet (60 meters), this underwater escarpment is covered with an almost luminescent white coral tinged with lavender. It's only 15 minutes by boat from the Garden Island Resort and is explored at a maximum depth of 100 feet (30 meters). Only dived on incoming tides.
 
The Zoo: Only a 20-minute boat ride from the resort dive shop. This site has its share of big fish including barracuda, reef sharks, bronze whalers, eagle rays and manta rays. It's a wall dive with a 100-foot (30 meters) maximum depth that is only done on outgoing tides.
Annie's Bommie: This has been likened to a coral head that glows like a Christmas tree. Only 65 feet (20 meters) down, it is lined with spectacular multi-coloured soft coral that includes all shades of red, purple, violet, blue, yellow and white. The diversity of fish is also extraordinary including wrasse, parrotfish, damsels and a host of other species.
Blue Ribbon Eel Reef: a 15-minute boat ride and 65 to 85 foot (20 to 25 meters) dive, is done as a drift dive. There are some incredible violet soft corals as well as an amazing density and variety of fish. The main attraction of course is the blue ribbon eel, which measures about the length of a finger but has strikingly vivid bands of blue and yellow. Despite the coloration these eels are hard to find for neophytes but our dive guide can easily point them out.
The Yellow Tunnel: This dive site is located 10 minutes away by boat and is at a depth of 85 feet (25 meters). It's an astounding display of yellow soft coral on a wall with a vertical swim-through. One actually swims through a chimney-like structure. There is also a wonderful variety of fish here.
The Cabbage Patch: A garden of unusual cabbage-shaped (hard) coral ranging in size from 3 to 15 feet (1 to 5 meters) in diameter. It's not unusual to see cabbage-shaped coral here but why they are here in such abundance is a mystery See picture below