CORAL SPAWNING

Coral Spawning 2008

September 20, 21 & 22

on these days our dive shop is open until 21:00.

We also have some discount prices for those evenings:
Tank + Weight + Dive Light + Full set Equipment $58,-
Tank + Weight + Dive Light $23,-
Guided Night dive including Full set Equipment + Dive Light $85,-
Guided Night dive including Dive Light $50,-

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International Cleanup Day - September 20

Free Tank & Weights for all participants
Sign up at the dive shop

The red seahorse at Playa Kalki got company...

Hello everybody,


Our nice red-orange seahorse at Playa Kalki is not the only one: 2 weeks ago there was discovered a second (brown) one, also at safety-stop level. I never get bored anymore staying at 15ft of water for 3 or minutes :-)


To take the following pictures turned out to be quite dangerous as both seahorses found themselves some pretty fierce bodyguards - damselfish seem to be protecting them and bite me as hard as they can every time I point out a seahorse to other divers or try to take photos...


Best regards from Curacao

Andreas















Hallo zusammen,


unser Hausriff-Seepferdchen am Playa Kalki hat Verstärkung bekommen: Vor ca. 2 Wochen wurde ein zweites (braunes) gefunden, dass ebenfalls auf Sicherheitsstopp-Tiefe herumlungert - nie mehr langweilige 3 Minuten auf 5m :-)


Obige Fotos sind unter höchster Gefahr für Leib und Leben zustandegekommen, da beide Seepferdchen sich inzwischen sehr humorlose Leibwächter in Gestalt von kleinen Riffbarschen zugelegt haben, die mich jedes Mal mit aller Macht attackieren und beißen, wenn ich die Seepferdchen unseren Gästen zeigen oder ein Bild machen will...


Fröhliche Flossenschläge aus Curacao

Andreas

Seahorse at Playa Kalki!

Hi divers!

Hallo Taucher!

You know we have been spotting our "private" seahorses in front of All West Apartments since February, now. But since two weeks, we also know the home of a nice seahorse at Playa Kalki, our Ocean Encounters West housereef:

Wie Ihr wisst, beobachten wir vor den All West Appartements bereits seit Februar unsere "privaten" Seepferdchen. Vor 2 Wochen haben wir nun auch eines am Playa Kalki, dem Hausriff unserer Tauchbasis Ocean Encounters West entdeckt:





Alessandra also found this juvenile Highhat:

Alessandra hat auch diesen jungen Streifenritterfisch gefunden:




Alessandra at the end of our dive today:

Alessandra am Ende unseres heutigen Tauchgangs:



Sunny greetings from Curacao,

Andreas

Frog Fish and Sea Turtle

Hello everybody,

I would like to share with you two very nice encounters we had on our boat dives today:

In the morning, we ended up diving in between the boat moorings of Lagún and Playa Jeremy - very nice reef! And at the end of the dive, right under the boat, I found: the next Frog Fish :-)

Thank you to our guest Christopher Perez for providing me with this marvelous photo!

On the afternoon dive to Watamula, our divers met a beautiful sea turtle, and Friedl Pistecky from Austria got this video stream of it:

Have fun looking at it, and always safe diving!

Andreas

New Frogfish at Lagun

Hello everybody,

Yesterday I found a new frog fish sitting on our Friday morning dive-site Lagun :-) It is almost as big as my fist, of bright yellow, and obviously likes the sponge it's sitting on - today, it was still there; and if we are lucky, many more guests diving with us on Fridays may be able to see it and take pictures. It looks more or less like this:

Take care, and always good diving,

Andreas

Everything is possible - dolphins in front of All West Apartments

Hi there,

All West Apartments guests were happy people on Saturday and Monday: A group of approximately 40 dolphins stayed and played around in our housereef bay!

Our divers saw them from our diveboat, the "Orca"; they used the boat to surf in front of the bow - and they kept company with our guests who snorkelled out to meet them, for more than 1 hour :-) We even had a 6 year old boy snorkelling with them! On the way back to the beach he also saw his first stingray!

Kind regards from Curacao
Andreas

Hallo zusammen!

All West Apartments-Gäste bleiben die Glückspilze auf Curacao:

Am Samstag und Montag hat sich eine Schule von ca. 40 Delfinen in unserer Hausriffbucht getummelt. Unsere Tauchgäste haben sie von unserem Tauchboot "Orca" aus gesehen, in dessen Bugwelle sie gesurft haben. Schnorchelnde Apartmentgäste, einschließlich des erst 6-jährigen Joscha, haben die Delfine mehr als 1 Stunde lang bespaßt :-) Auf dem Rückweg zum Strand wurde dann noch ein Stachelrochen gesichtet!

Mit fröhlichem Flossenschlag aus der Karibik
Andreas

Seahorse in front of All West Apartments

Hi everybody,

All West Apartments guests are lucky since weeks:

A seahorse is staying in our housereef in the very shallow, so even snorkelers are able to see it! 2 weeks ago, it even had a companion; maybe they were trying to work on some more seahorses.

If you are planning to have a look and need some more information on where to find the seahorse, feel free to contact me: andreas@allwestcuracao.com.

Best regards
Andreas

Hallo zusammen,

All West Apartments Gäste haben in letzter Zeit Glück:

Ein Seepferdchen hat sich im Flachwasser in unserem Hausriff niedergelassen; auch Schnorchler können es mitunter bestaunen. Vor 2 Wochen hatte es sogar einen Gefährten - ob sich da wohl Nachwuchs anbahnt?

Wer sich das Seepferdchen anschauen möchte, und noch genauere Informationen zu dessen Standort benötigt, kann mich gern kontaktieren unter andreas@allwestcuracao.com.


Viele Grüße aus der Karibik

Andreas