Barra Dive - Buddies Reef

Buddies Reef

Distance: Qualification: Max Depth: Average Depth: Dive Time:

1km DSD 11m 8m 50mins

This is lovely shallow dive site just down from Anchor Bay, full of fantastic small marine creatures. The reef is flat and oval shaped, but cut through all over the place with channels and gullies, study these for they hide so much life. We've found Paperfish, a juvenile Rockmover wrasse and Emperor Angelfish. Also Periclimenes and Harlequin shrimp are found when you look closely.

We drop onto the southern edge of Buddies and start swimming slowly round and north. All over the reef are masses of Dusky Sweepers, they hover like a huge cloud and you can actually swim through them, they just part gently to let you pass.  There is also a specific crack where you find five Longfin Batfish, they can be quite inquisitive and come up close even nibbling on our buoy-line once!

Towards the end of the dive you come to a massive area covered in Daisy coral, a real underwater field of Daisies! It is a stunning sight with Chocolate dips, Domino's, Goldies and Butterfly fish all over and in and between the coral. We love this dive and use it for training and for ocean night dives.

General info:
This is a very gentle site, suitable for all experience levels. We have placed a permanent block on the sand to attach a buoy, for DSD and Open Water training. We can also dive here when other sites are adversely affected by sea conditions because currents or surge do not usually affect it.