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

Fotos of the Frogfish at Kortape Point

Many thanks to our guest Bob for providing us with these nice images:








Kortape Point is on our boat trip schedule every Wednesday morning!

Kind regards from Curacao
Andreas

Elvin's Planewreck has a new look

Hello everybody,

After we experienced rough seas a bit more than one week ago, Elvin's Planewreck now looks quite different: The body is broken in two parts, the cockpit is not longer in its place.

In my opinion, the wreck is an even more interesting dive now.

But maybe you'd rather join us on one of our next boat trips there to form your own opinion about it. I add a few photos to this post so you see roughly what you are up to.

Kind regards,

Andreas

PADI Digital Underwater Diver Course

Yesterday we had a PADI Digital Underwater Photography Course at Ocean Encounters West, and we would like to share some of the results with you; all these photos (except the portrait of herself and her father David) have been taken by Charleen from New Jersey with a Sealife ReefMaster Mini Digital Camera, some using also an external flash. The divesites were Alice in Wonderland - the housereef of Ocean Encounters West - and Elvin's Planewreck.

We are proud of the results obtained during the training dives, and invite divers interested in using a Digital Camera during their dives to contact us and maybe sign up for a course, too. You may bring your own camera, or - for a maximum of two students - we can also share Andreas' Sealife DC 600 featuring wideangle lense and external flash.

The photos show:

The Students: Charleen and David

Juvenile Parrotfishes and Blueheads feading on a Sergeant Major's nest
A swarm of French Grunts
A Scrawled Filefish

Dolphin Dive with Ocean Encounters and Dolphin Academy

Hi there,

Did you ever dream of diving with dolphins, and getting even to touch them? On the Ocean Encounters Dolphin Dive operated in cooperation with the Dolphin Academy at Curacao's Seawater Aquarium you can! I tried it on Monday, and was really amazed by this incredible animal encounter. We met the dolphins and their trainer in an open water environment out on a reef close to the aquarium. The 2 dolphins went zooming around like a pair of Quidditch-Players, but also came very close, so everybody could pet them! It was great to be with them :-)

If you want to try this, too, you can make your booking with Ocean Encounters West.

We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

Kind regards from Curacao,

Andreas

Whale Shark

Thank you to Olga and Harald for the picture of the whale shark.
We are waiting for him to come back to All West.

Frogfish at Kortape Point

Hi all,

on Wednesday I found the home of a frogfish new to us during our boat dive at Kortape Point. It looks similar to the one found by All West Apartments guests Ilona and Bernd in Februaray (see photo).

We offer boat trips leading to Kortape every Wednesday starting 8:30 am at Ocean Encounters West. The first dive-site on these trips is Hell's Corner.

Kind regards

Andreas

All West Apartments and Diving

Ocean Encounters West