As we’re just back from our beautiful holiday in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic. I’m glad to write that everything has been great during our stay in the Caribbean. First few days we tried to plan a few nice excursions including freediving and scuba-diving. After that it was just sitting back and enjoy the underwater life to the maximum.

Fortunately the surroundings of the hotel had quite a few reef-balls lying right in front of the coast line, so the first encounters with the fish had been made the first day. After that we’ve been scuba-diving a place near Catalinita, which was in the Atlantic Ocean. Fortunately we were able to meet 2 sharks whilst we were scuba-diving and unfortunately for me there were 2 plants blocking my picture of a black-tip-reef shark. Never the less I had been fortunate enough to even meet them, even if it was to see them in a glimpse.

Furthermore we have been snorkeling near the Chavon river, which was a shallow place featuring a lot of fish. Only down-side to the whole thing was that we had to wear an inflatable life vest whilst snorkeling. But we managed to enjoy the underwater life very much.

After that we decided to go and visit the Catalina Island which we heard had a few deeper coral walls to snorkel / freedive at. We had to convince the guides that we did not need the life vests and after that it was quite the place to be… After a few shallow encounters with a lot of fish, we decided to go to the coral walls. There I did a few deeper dives to -15m, -18m and -24m which was basically the bottom of the sea at that spot. My girlfriend did a nice easy freedive to -15m which I’m very proud of she enjoys the underwater life just as much as I do.

Later in the holiday we also made a nice night scuba-dive which was a first for us, but we both enjoyed it, although we didn’t get to shoot many pictures underwater that night. We spotted a few larger balloon fish and seen a big ray passing by.

 

The rest of the days had been filled with exploring the coast-line in front of the hotel which was a bit deeper further out the coast-line, about -8m deep. Featuring some nice coral towers, with a lot of fish… some of them protecting it to their maximum

All in all we had a good time in Bayahibe and with lots of video- and photo-material we can re-live the moment quite a few times more at home.

Here’s a clip of the Bayahibe trip: Freediving Bayahibe Movie

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