Friday, August 10, 2012

Day 295: Diving in Taganga

Pretty much the only other thing you can do in Taganga - apart from partying and hanging out at the beach - is diving. Interestingly enough, diving here is only half as expensive as diving in Cartagena. Half! And for that, you get dive spots that are in a national park, at least as beautiful, and only a few hours along the coast. Very weird - but that's of course why I didn't go diving in Cartagena :-)

During the two dives, I saw a nice variety of colorful tropical fish. The l ones I liked most were different types of boxfish, among them cute spotted smooth trunkfish. We also saw some fish who were patterned in exactly the same way as the coral they were sitting on, making them almost impossible to spot.

But the main attraction on these dives was the underwater landscape. There were these fantastic red plants...



... and many formations that looked like craters:



And then there were these weird giants in black suits that had tubes coming out of their mouths... ;-)