West Point 1 and 2 are two fantastic dive sites, hard to reach but full of marine life and healthy coral formations.
| Name divesite: | West Point 1 and 2 |
| Depth: | 25-140ft (7-42m) and deeper |
| Visibility: | 50-200ft (15-60m) and more |
| Accessibility: | Shore, Boat, Live-aboard |
| Time to visit: | All year around |
| Inserted/Added by: | Lighthouse Reef Scuba Dive Cabins |
| Specifications: |     |
Along the northern limb of Lighthouse Reef are two infrequently visited dive sites. West Point 1 and West Point 2 to the north, both have excellent diving, but visibility can drop to 50 ft or less when the winds blow steadily out of the east or northeast. But the poor visibility is normally limited to the upper 20 ft. Both reefs have a narrow rim adjacent to a wall that plunges to 125 ft. The wall is vertical to slightly overhanging in most places. A variety of sponges and corals decorate the wall with many shapes and colors. Below 125 ft there is a narrow terrace covered with sand and a sparse cover of coral. The gently sloped terrace leads right up to the edge of a second deep wall.
If watching or photographing fish is on your list, this is the one place you don't want to miss. Schools of smooth trunkfish, all four angelfish (queen, gray, French and rock beauty) and lots of parrotfish congregate here. Yellowtail snappers appear in great numbers, along with queen trigger- fish, white spotted filefish, hogfish, barracudas and tiger groupers. All the butterflyfish feed on the reef here too, including the rare longsnout. A variety of Creole wrasses, blennies, gobies and hamlets need to also be included on this partial list.
Even if fish are not your main interest, you will find this site a joy to dive. Here too, the coral is healthy and at least as varied as the fish life. Conch and garden eels are found in the sand slopes behind the reef wall, whereas spotted and green moray eels hide in healthy coral growths.
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