Tori's Reef is a shallow, quiet site on the south coast where seagrass and sand alternate. It is not a reef for going deep, but one of the better places to watch turtles graze. The entry is flat and the current light.
Tori's Reef is a beginner shore dive on the south coast: a seagrass field at three to five metres with grazing turtles, a reef top at seven metres and a slope to thirty.
A broad seagrass field at three to five metres where green turtles come to graze and pipefish hang among the blades. Beyond it lie loose coral heads and a reef top at seven metres that drops gently to thirty. Southern stingrays forage on the sand.
In the morning, when the turtles are on the seagrass and the water is still clear. In an afternoon wind the shallow strip turns murky.
Little depth and little spectacle if you are after walls. The seagrass is fragile: do not stand in it, do not drag over it. In wind the visibility drops fast. Ample unpaved parking, no shade, 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 fields along the south coast are nurseries for reef fish and the most important grazing ground for green turtles around the island. They are under the same protection as the reef, and damaging them is a punishable offence.
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