EXCEPTIONAL SPOTS IN FLIC EN FLAC FOR SCUBA DIVING
Scuba diving in Flic en Flac is a real pleasure. As on land in the sea also, there is a unique biodiversity. There are numerous endemic fish in Mauritius and their collector, Daniel Pelicier, lives in Flic en Flac.
Scuba diving in Flic en Flac is very agreeable. This side of Mauritius is under the wind and benefits generally of a quiet sea and a good visibility. The spots are diversified – reefs, caves, wrecks – and you discover all sorts of marine creatures, small, medium and large.
The cathedral (30 m), who has got its name from its majestic entrance, resembling the arches of an underwater cathedral, leading to caves, inhabited of many fish and shelves of lobsters. If you are lucky, you may get a glimpse of the moray defend its hole.
Snake Rampart (25 m) is rocks and corals winding on an enormous space of sand, where a peaceful living together of all sorts of marine creatures is a fact. I saw a redtooth triggerfish share the hole of a moray, just before a stonefish and visited by dancing anthias. Snake Rampart seems to be the paradise for fish, where harmony is the first rule. And when the enormous stingray comes down to its beauty parlour, happiness comes into your heart!
The aquarium, – ideal for beginners (6 – 18 m) – abounds in fearless fish that come inspect the divers searching for their balance under the water.
Tokata-l’éveillé for the more experienced (30m) begins with an enormous field of anemones with the orange-black-white striped endemic Mauritian clown fish – as a baby they are white and yellow striped – and the black damselfishes, with one white spot as a baby. The dive ends under a beautiful arch, glimmering in turquoise blue.
Many other spots, more or less deep, some wrecks, are all different and worth of exploring.
Best dive centers
I dive with Christophe of Abyss, the best qualified dive master of this island, responsible of the security in diving of all the Mauritian clubs and the most passionate diver I ever met. Nobody else has so much patience to share his environment with his guest divers. He will show you the colored flatworms, the transparent shrimps, the phantom fish, stone fish, Bob Marley, Charles Bronson and blue kiss…His piercing eyes will never miss the sea turtle or the shark even from far.
If you feel like keeping a memory of your undersea explorations, I recommend you Agnès and Xavier of Ti-Cabo. This young couple produced many programms on the undersea world for the Mauritian TV. Now they bring all this experience in producing a DVD on your dive.