DIVE SITE
Magic Rock


This site is named after a rock at 15m in the coral shallow area and sand slope which is a cleaning station where many different creatures can be found! Divers head out over a sand plain, gently sloping to a fantastic wall which goes from 21 – 50 meters in depth. The sand is not very productive, but in the shallows there is an exceptional hard coral garden from the coast down to 10 meters in depth, which offers fine snorkeling, sheltered from the SE winds (June – Sept.), but subject to swell at times during the rainy season (Nov. – April).

Depths
28 m maximum depth

Boat Rides
10 minute

Habitats
Mixed
Critters
Found in This Divesite

Ribbon eel
Rhinomuraena quaesita

Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse
Hippocampus bargibanti

Pontohi Pygmy Seahorse
Hippocampus pontohi

Blue-dashed Rockskipper
Bleniella paula

Zebra Lionfish
Dendrochirus zebra

Angler Flatfish
Asterorhombus fijiensis

Warty frogfish
Antennarius maculatus

Painted frogfish
Antennarius pictus

Giant frogfish
Antennarius commersoni

Orange-Lined Triggerfish
Balistapus undulatus
Starry Triggerfish
Abalistes stellatus

Trumpet Fish
Aulostomus chinensis

Black-saddled Toby
Canthigaster valentini

Fingerprint Toby
Canthigaster compressa

Black-spotted Puffer
Arothron nigropunctatus

White-spotted Puffer
Arothron hispidus

Map Puffer
Arothron mappa

Striped Puffer
Arothron manilensis
Yellowlined Cardinalfish
Apogon chrysotaenia
Split Banded Cardinalfish
Apogon compressus

Clown Anemone Fish
Amphiprion percula
Three Band Anemone Fish
Amphiprion tricintus

Orange Anemone Fish
Amphiprion sandaracinos

Saddleback Anemonefish
Amphiprion polymnus

Pink-skunk Anemonefish
Amphiprion perideraion

Bicolor Parrotfish
Cetoscarus bicolor

Razorfish
Aeoliscus strigatus

Eight-Banded Butterfly Fish
Chaetodon octofasciatus

Wire Coral Goby
Bryaninops yongei
Black Coral Goby
Bryaninops tigris
Scissortail Sergeant
Abudefduf sexfasciatus
Snooty Wrasse
Cheilinus oxycephalus
Redbreasted Wrasse
Cheilinus fasciatus
Tripletail Wrasse
Cheilinus trilobatus

Blue Spotted Grouper
Cephalopholis cyanostigma

Chocolate Grouper
Cephalopholis boenak

Crinoid squat lobster
Allogalathea elegans

Skeleton shrimp
Caprellid sp.

Black Coral Shrimp
Pontonides Unciger

Retusa Decorator Crab
Camposcia retusa

Tuberculate Night Anemone
Alicia sp.

Branching Anemone
Actinodendron plumosum

Robustum Ascidian
Atriolum robustum

Chelidonura varians
Chelidonura varians

Chromodoris annae Nudibranch
Chromodoris annae

Chromodoris sp. Nudibranch
Chromodoris sp.

Chromodoris lochi Nudibranch
Chromodoris lochi

Chromodoris magnifica Nudibranch
Chromodoris magnifica

Chromodoris elisabethina Nudibranch
Chromodoris elisabethina

Ceratosoma trilobatum Nudibranch
Ceratosoma trilobatum

Aegires minor Nudibranch
Aegires minor

Starry night octopus
Callistoctopus luteus

Fire Urchin
Asthenosoma varium