Weber's Joy is one of the calmest shore dives on the west coast and a good choice for the first dive of the week. The entry crosses a short strip of coral rubble, the reef top starts flat and the slope runs away gently. Older charts call the same place Witches Hut.
Weber's Joy, also Witches Hut, is a beginner shore dive on the west coast: broad reef top at four to six metres, gentle slope to thirty metres and parking for two cars.
A broad reef top at four to six metres with plenty of juvenile fish: sergeant majors, young parrotfish and groupers among the finger coral. Past the edge the slope runs calmly to thirty metres, with sponges and sea fans. Turtles on the top regularly, and jacks hunting in the morning.
Usable almost year-round in easterly wind. Visibility on the top is best in the morning; later in the day the sun sits better for photographs on the slope.
The parking strip is small: two cars, after that you are in the verge. The rubble entry is uncomfortable barefoot. No shade, no water, no toilet. With a dive school group the reef top fills quickly.
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The two names belong to two periods: Witches Hut refers to a hut that no longer stands, Weber's Joy to one of the diving pioneers who mapped the site. Both names are still in use, including by dive schools.
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