Rocky Bay
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About this site
Rocky Bay is a boat dive in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, with an average depth of 12 metres and a maximum of 18 metres. The site is made up of sandstone ridges and gullies running parallel to the shore. Further from shore the bottom flattens out into coarse sand with large round boulders.
The ridges carry sea fans, soft corals and huge wall sponges, and the site is full of juvenile fish, klipfish, shysharks, rock suckers and red roman. Many kinds of nudibranch live here, including red spotted dorids, candy nudibranchs and feather nudibranchs, along with carpet flatworms.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
Pacific Chub MackerelScomber japonicusReported here · unconfirmed
NudibranchNudibranchReported here · unconfirmed
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