Sunday, August 28, 2016

Day 18 - Diving in The Gokana Reef and Kalu Point in Trincomalee


This was a two dive trip in Trincomalee, We took the boat from uppuweli and headed south to gokana reef and Kalu point.

Gokana Reef

Gokana reef is a ~20m deep scattered rocky bottom diving site, 15-20mins boat from uppuweli. At one point the edge of the rock is very steep and couldn't even see the bottom. We were able identify a Bluespotted stingray here.









Kalu Point

"Kalu" point is a very shallow diving site, less 8 meters deep at the deepest point. So this is a very popular snorkeling site than a diving site. And also this is accessible from land too. This is located few kilometers south to uppuweli.
We spotted a cuttlefish here.. and this is the first cuttlefish i found so far in my short diving life. :) We spent few minutes observing this beautiful creature; until it swam away finding its too annoying to hang with these two strange creatures who were making bubbles and hovering around.















The Mr. Cuttlefish







Saturday, August 20, 2016

Day 17 - Diving in The Target Point and Navy reef in Trincomalee


It was a double diving on day 17th. I'm publishing this bit later but these dive records were from the same visit to trincomalee to stay few days with my friends at "Blue Deep diving" center a month back.

Target Point

Target point is a ~20m deep diving site which is located near the naval base trincomalee. Apparently the navy officers do not like the fact that all these diving boats sneaking around too close to the base. So the boats doesn't anchor there; just dropping the divers and coming back to pick them up after they re-surface.
This site is actually a kind of a scattered coral reef and we were able to identify Stone fish, Scorpion fish and Clown fish(Clown fish are bit rare these days in Sri Lankan diving sites).




A fish trap




















Navy Reef

This is the second day i dived in this location.

Click here is see navy reef description of Day 16th

As i said i couldn't video the caves in day 16th, So here are the caves for you.