Ireland
A stunning coral dive which derives its name from two truly
unique and extremely large patches of Pencil Coral. It sort
of gives you the idea of the grassy meadows on the hills of
Ireland. We have never seen Pencil Coral at this scale
anywhere. And this is just a small part of a drift dive that
covers an all out beautiful coral reef. Lots and lots of big
healthy hard corals between fields of Sea Fans and other
soft Corals. We often find Sting Ray, Turtles and Spiny
Lobster hiding between it all.
Also large Grouper, Trunk Fish, Cubera-, Gray- and Dog
Snapper, Queen Trigger and schools of Horse Eye Jack
cruising in the blue. Around the 60 feet area we find many
large Giant Barrel Sponges.
Depending on the speed of the current and our exit point we
may come across a group of large old canon and a canon ball
field in the shallows.
And also in this area we find many Longhorn-, Seaweed- and
Rough Head Blennies as we approach our exit.
Both entry and exit are with rolling surf.
