Greece



The catamaran tour from Rethimnon makes a stop on this place, before the Lunch in Bali, Kriti.

Mpali

Bali

West side has nice walls with various polished shapes.
Front of the beach is a sandy and pebbles area with small rocks covered with growth and tube worms.
East Side with a tunnel directly from the beach then small caverns.
Small fish all over the place.
Not enough hiding places for big ones.
Good for training. 

The road to the beach is linked to the fuel station north side of the road.
If you come from Rethymno, it's safer to stop at the opposite fuel station to cross carefully the road.

Spilies is also known as Tou Maliou to Riaki.

Spilies

Dias Rock is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Greece, Crete which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.

Dias Rock



Agia pelagia, Ligaria

Mononaftis is also known as Mononaftis.

Mononaftis

Ligaria Beach is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Greece, Crete which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.

Ligaria Beach



Ligaria

Coral Cave is also known as Coral Cave Ligaria.

Coral Cave

reef around the rock . on the east side you find big boulders and a sloop to sandy bottom and some bombs from the WWII

snorkel from beach or by boat

Bomb Reef is also known as Made house reef.

Bomb Reef

I find it not worth for a dive.
Maybe Ok for a snorkeling and free diving session.

On the way to Agios Pavlos

Ligres Beach

Largely overfished. 
Abundance of abandoned nets and fishing lines.
Interesting rock formation for a one shot dive. 
Specially the zone east from the 3 rocks, easily accessible from the eastern beach.
Good for snorkeling and shallow free diving.  
Lots of stuff brought by currents or lost by swimmer and boaters to be retrieved :)
The 3 rocks and their underwater extension area can be exposed to currents.
That area is a large flat rocky block cut by narrow canyons.



Triapetra

Very good wall dive.
Shore access by a 10min. snorkeling from the beach (taverna).
Just around the rock, the sand drops abruptly from 6 to 22m.
A kind of wide sand valley.
Bottom with weeds then stones when gently leveling up towards north.
Seascape becomes really interesting with huge flat rocks providing overhangs covered with yellow anemones, sponges, tube worms etc.
the wall is either vertical from surface to 30m or slightly hanging over.  
Very cool atmosphear with the light giving on the wall.  
I guess it's preferable to do this dive in the first part of the day.
Tons of small fish in July 2013 : sand smelt, picarels and damsel fish.
Only one medium sized grouper spotted. 
Will go back as soon as possible !



Agios Pavlos Wall

Very good wall dive with small caves/natural rooms under overhangs.
Just around the rock, there is a already nice small cave 10m deep the sandy bottom with a few small posidonia patches drops gently from 15m there to maximum 35m as far as I went.
It looks like going up from there westward to the next beach.
A kind of wide sand valley.

On the map, the coast looks like a boot : the heel gap area is nice cove with interesting thin geological layers and a huge rock split in 2 making a small canyon.

Seascape is a pretty much a vertical wall dropping to a mostly sandy bottom (I didn't explore away from the wall but it seems to drops gently deeper) 
Wall is colorful and very rich in life under 12m depth (quite bare above) with some nice overhangs covered with green algea, yellow anemones, sponges, lot of tube worms etc.

Lots of small fish in september 2014 : sand smelt, picarels and damsel, parrot fish and tiny groupers.  Quite a lot of spearfishermen around. 
Will go back as soon as possible !  Not sure now which side of the taverna beach I like the most ...

West from taverna beach. Shore access by a few minutes snorkeling from the beach (taverna).

Bali

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Bali