Snorkeling is an exciting activity that anyone can enjoy with minimal equipment and little training. A Perfect family tour fun easy, safe a great way to see the underwater world!
The Snorkel Tour takes approximately two hours. We meet all participants at our dive centre so we can fit you out with proper snorkeling equipment and fill in the paperwork. There you will also receive a brief overview explaining whats going to happen during your tour, the equipment you will be using, some basic knowledge about snorkeling and the rules that need to be followed for your safety during the tour.
We have 2 different sites where we can do snorkelling depending on the sea conditions we will choose the best considering safety, visibility and currents. Let me explain a little about the sites.
Santa Maria’s Bay a couple hundred meters of shore there is a multilevel reef 3m to 8m deep giving a range of depth ideal for marine life to move around and suitable for all visibility conditions, at the end of the reef there is a shallow shipwreck, Bolama or more commonly known as Calderinha due to the big boiler still left behind. Schools of soldier fish and snappers like to swim around it and are regularly found here in addition to parrot fish, trumpet fish and many others.
Bikini is further to the northwest, it is a shallow reef 2m to 6m where you can see corals in close proximity, lots of invertebrates such as morays and lobsters and since its closer to shore and shallow, it works as a fish nursery area.
Every hotel/apartment in Santa Maria. Meeting point: Cabo Verde Diving – AQUARIUM 9.30 AM Nearby hotels: Oasis Belorizonte, Oasis Salinas, Morabeza, Ouril Pontao, Nha Terra, Ocean Café, Villa Ao Mar, Porto Antiguo I, Porto Antíguo II, Odjo de Agua, Surf Zone. https://goo.gl/maps/C4qoa1hUdNcShnDT7 Cabo Verde Diving – FAROL 9.20 AM Nearby hotels: VOI Vila do Farol, Robinson. https://goo.gl/maps/fAU853SE8bN23xeM6 Hotel pick up: 9.10 AM (List of hotels inside Santa Maria, there are more but those are the usuals, we will pick up at any other as well at the same time) Vilaverde Budda Beach Lemme Bedge Santa Maria Beach Hotel Surf House Hostel Surf House Cabo Verde Surfactivity Guest House Angulo House Blue Eagle Hotel de Luz Casa Pau Xamedu Hostel Sakaroule B&B Damfjord Arco Iris House Hotel Sobrado Branco Suites 9.20 AM Riu Palace Riu Funana Riu Cabo Verde Hilton Dunas de Sal 9.30 AM Melia Tortuga Tui Blue Melia Llana Melia Dunas Sol Dunas.
Please indicate your hotel name and address on the checkout page
The dive center will reconfirm your pick up time and location at the latest one day in advance