The Fingers

The briefing for this site is simple: hold up your hand. That's the layout. A large central reef area with distinct coral spurs extending outward like fingers, separated by wide sand channels that run between them. It's an unusually intuitive site to navigate — the structure makes spatial sense in a way that a sprawling patch reef or wall doesn't, and the sand channels give you clear corridors to work through at whatever depth suits you.

The depth range is generous for a spur-and-groove reef — 35 feet at the top of the coral fingers, dropping to 75 feet in the sandy channels below. That spread means a single dive can cover genuinely different environments: dense coral canopy up high, open sand bottom down low, and the water column between them where the bigger animals move.

The Spotted Eagle Rays are the headline sighting. The wide sand channels are ideal habitat, and IDC's crew has logged consistent sightings here over the years — solo rays gliding through the channels, and occasionally pairs. Dolphins have also been encountered at this site, which is unusual enough that it stays with divers who experience it.

Look down when you're in the sand. The Yellowheaded Jawfish population here is one of the better ones on any IDC site — small, iridescent, hovering just above their burrows with their heads poking up from the sand. They're not hard to find once you know what you're looking for, but most divers swim straight past them. Slow down, get horizontal, and they're everywhere.