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Dive Experience/Sugar Beach Condos, Feb, 2006, by Tracey, md, USA . Report 2833.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Although February is a popular time to visit the Caribbean, the water is often choppy and the vis isn't as clear as the summer. This year we were lucky, as although there was some wind, it wasn't keeping me off of the dive boat. The shore diving at Cane Bay is phenomenal. A short swim out to the buoy, then drop down. Follow the wall to your left, turn around and come back. The hardest part is you need to return through the break in the shallow reef, and it is easy to come up down current. And then it is a hard swim back. The boat dives are also nice, Salt River east and west walls are completely different and offer you a nice change. Diving in Cozumel is relatively easy if the winds are down. Dive Experience will lead you on all dives, catering for the experience level. And it there are advanced and beginner divers, they will have DMs for each group. The corals in the area have a lot of bleaching, but this seems to be true at many other caribbean locations. The fish here are a bit smaller than say, Cozumel, but there are plenty of good variety. Lots of spotted and green moray eels. Some southern sting rays and nurse sharks. Dive Experience also offers an afternoon fish feed at The Barge (a sunken sand barge) using chain mail gloves, the DMs feed the locals - yellowtail snapper, triggerfish, creole wrasse, chomis, and a few very large green morays. This is also a great site at night, where we say dozens of large caribbean lobster and some sizable crabs too! Sugar Beach Condos are fully furnished - 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, kitchen, family room, and a nice porch overlooking the beach. There is a swimming pool on site for those with non-diving families. The beach is weedy, but there are some who swim there.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	various Caribbean islands, Cozumel, Australia
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	windy	Seas	choppy, noCurrents
Water Temp	78-80°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	70-90 Ft/ 21-27 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	None Available

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Dive Review of Dive Experience/Sugar Beach Condos in Virgin Islands/St Croix

Dive Experience/Sugar Beach Condos, Feb, 2006,

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Dive Review of Dive Experience/Sugar Beach Condos in
Virgin Islands/St Croix