Crabbing Bay Blue Hole Diving Adventure

Your adventure begins on pickup when your certified guide conveys the rich history of this destination during a narrative drive to East Grand Bahama your diving location Crabbing Bay. From Crabbing Bays beautiful coastline we find a natural wonder in a shallow body of water outside of the settlement of McLeans Town. After a short walk in very shallow water with the most interesting sandy bottom resembling thousands of little mini volcanoes created by worms call Lug-worms, then cross a grassy bed known as Thalassiatestudinum common name turtle grass,which are nurseries for juvenile marine animals. Once pass these marine ecosystems you will find a sinkhole known by locals as a boiling holes or blue holes. This hole is in about 5 feet of water, a vertical drop to more than 60 feet in depth. The entrance of the hole is about 30 feet long and more than 15 feet wide. This is a large vertical drop until you reach the bottom. The bottom is a horizontal ground that continues away from ambient light into a cave system. The interest of this dive is not its cave, but its marine life. As you descend into this marine blue hole you are quickly greeted by life and lots of it. Schooling snappers and grunts congregate under the main ledge and the entire wall is covered with encrusted sponges in yellow, red, orange and white. Hermit crabs in different colors, lobsters in crevices and banded coral shrimps near little holes. There are different species of anemones, scallops, eels, parrot fish, angel fish and the list continues as you explore this amazing destination. After this exhilarating adventure, we move on to lunch. Our destination is a little family owned restaurant call Virgys takeout in a local settlement call High Rock. After a short drive about 30 minutes we arrive at a quaint little restaurant in a pretty local settlement. Here we will enjoy a delicious meal of local style cuisine cooked to the taste buds of a local mama. Then we drive through the settlement of High Rock after lunch and stop at a local bar on the beach call Bishops. Sit back and enjoy a beautiful beach view while drinking some local beer, before the return to your place of lodging.