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Guadeloupe (Caribbean)/Iles des Saintes

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Dive Bouteille: "Beautiful, varied diving off peaceful Les Saintes", Mar, 2024, by Keith Willmott, FL, US ( Sr. Contributor 23 reports with 12 Helpful votes). Report 13098.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food	N/A
Service and Attitude	N/A	Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We stayed in a comfortable bungalow in a beautifully peaceful garden a stone’s throw from the dive shop on Terre-de-Haut. There are no cars on the island - walk or get a golf cart, very tranquil, good bakeries and restaurants. Small dive shop on the beach, dive boat moored off the beach, wade out and throw your gear on board, max of maybe 8 divers on the boat. We did 6 dives. Canyons, overhangs and boulders with colorful soft corals, sponges and good diversity of reef fish around small islands of Les Augustines; sand, Caulerpa and slope with boulders off Pain de Sucre with yellow-headed jawfish, seahorse, anemones, sharptail eels, molluscs, macrophoto opportunities; Pointe a Cabrit with huge rocky boulders, caves and overhangs, covered in sponges, soft corals, schools of reef fish; and the (at least locally) famous Sec Pate, a pinnacle in the channel between Les Saintes and Guadeloupe, dived only under good conditions - we had virtually no current, dive leader Amelie took us down a ‘chimney’ at 32 m lined with black coral and sponges and another at 25 m. This underwater mountain was stunning, canyons and walls covered with huge barrel sponges, tubular sponges, fan corals, many fish including large snapper, black durgon, butterflyfish, frequent turtles, jacks. Overall, the diving was varied, beautiful, and the location and dive shop relaxed and peaceful, definitely a place to visit again, only slight downside was infrequency of night dives, about once a week, but they just don’t seem that popular in Guadeloupe, perhaps because the evenings are better spent enjoying the food and wine…
Websites	Dive Bouteille
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Florida, Belize, Panama (Coiba, Pearl Is) St Vincent and Grenadines, UK, Red Sea (Sharm), Myanmar, Sulawesi (Wakatobi), Philippines (Mindoro, Palawan), Solomons (Guadalcanal), New Zealand (Poor Knights), Papua New Guinea, west Australia
Closest Airport	Point-a-Pitre airport	Getting There	Couple hours drive in rental car from airport, we left the car in the car park by the ferry terminal for our several days trip to Les Saintes.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	-°F / -°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	30-50 Ft/ 9-15 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Stay with dive leader; allowed us to dive on our own last dive.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Dive Bouteille in Guadeloupe (Caribbean)/Iles des Saintes

Dive Bouteille: "Beautiful, varied diving off peaceful Les Saintes", Mar, 2024,

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Dive Review of Dive Bouteille in
Guadeloupe (Caribbean)/Iles des Saintes