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Trip Report Tenerife...
After our flight was delayed for little over an hour due to computer malfunction (yeah very reassuring I tell you) we arrived to a balmy 26C midnight, onto the coach and at the hotel at near enough 2:30am Saturday morning We had a very nice apartment at the tamaimo apartments on the top floor in the corner (i.e. no neighbour on the one side and fortunately all the other neighbouring rooms were not occupied!) ... The apartment consisted of a large lounge/kitchen, full bathroom and a double room, also a balcony overlooking the pool. The lounge main chair also could be used as a bed. so the first thing I do when awaking is throw open the door and see the view from the non poolside ... it was breathtaking - proper geography - cliffs shrouded in a light morning mist, blue and intimidating and lovely all at once... (I love mountains) ... Diving then Monday... my birthday... 2 dives were planned - Atlantis was first - a 30 m dive around some absolutely breathtaking lava columns which culminated in the 'cathedral' where the lava columns had collapsed forming a ... you know it... church type roof.... absolutely gorgeous and my first view of a eel garden - where these reed like things that disappear and look like grass are actually eels... then a break, food and of course the dive we were looking forward to...seahorses! so off we go to kit up, 4 of us + guide on this dive and 2 doing a navigation dive course... so we go to the seahorse place and we find 3 of these gorgeously camouflaged creatures in the sea weed... so tiny and delicate... after observing them for a bit off we go to see other stuff around the sight - a few minutes later we were surprised by being circled by -... a deep sea manta.. it just circled us slowly and elegantly, it was around 5 meters wide and had 2 remoras (sp??) hanging off it... apparently they very rarely come to shore - only where there are jellyfish (and there were a few about) - so rare that the owner of the dive school has never (and still not cause she wasn’t on the dive) seen one in real life... in 8 years of diving in Tenerife... it circled us for around 10 - 15 mins... Tuesday was a short day diving for us - just one dive then a nice long drive to Candelaria afterwards... Candelaria has an interesting history and a black Madonna and child in the main church... Thursday saw our last 2 dives. the first being to the wreck which was incredibly hard work due to the spring tides - all I saw was determination to follow the leader and not end up on another island swept away by the current... we almost didn’t do the second dive but I am glad we did as it was truly gorgeous drift dive with a strange sea cucumber, pretty damsels and parrot fish and a family of rays ... drift dives are good and we were down for around an hour when told to ascend and it felt like 10 mins!!! In summary: Cons: Internet links |
