Te Amo is a beach with a reef rather than a dive site with a beach. The wide sand and shallow entry make it popular with snorkellers and families; as a dive it is flat and calm. A good spot for a second dive or a long shallow one.
Te Amo is a beginner shore dive on the south coast: a broad sandy beach, seagrass at two to four metres, reef to twenty-five metres and plenty of snorkellers.
An expansive seagrass strip at two to four metres holding juvenile fish and pipefish, then loose coral heads and a top at six metres. The slope drops to twenty-five metres with sponges and soft corals. Turtles come here to graze, especially in the morning.
In the morning, while the beach is still empty and the seagrass is clear. In an afternoon wind the shallow strip stirs up and the seagrass loses its visibility.
The dive itself is unexciting: much sand, little relief. The beach can be busy and cars park right by the entry. A few trees give shade, otherwise there is nothing — no water, no toilet.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
The seagrass field off Te Amo belongs to a chain of shallow areas along the south coast that act as a nursery for reef fish. That makes the site less spectacular to dive and more important to protect than it looks.
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