| The island offers unbeatable conditions for diving, like swimming through a dense curtain of brightly coloured fish, or large sting rays. There are some thirty dive sites distributed all along the coastline, where you can discover the fascinating marine life and the remains of ship wrecks. Las Galletas has some of the best dive sites. The most frequently seen fish on rocky bottoms are the dusky grouper, parrot fish, gold lined bream, white bream, moray eels, glass eyes, scorpion fish, cardinal fish and wreck fish. On mixed, sand and stone bottoms, you find couch´s sea bream, Pandora, red bream, black bream and drum, while on mud and sand bottoms, you will find mullet, sting rays, angel sharks, hound sharks and Canary hake. The Tenerife shoreline conserves marine ecosystems with a large number of endemic species. You can find interesting sea turtles, like the loggerhead turtle, and a resident population of pilot whales off the southern coasts of the island. Bottle nosed dolphins are also frequently spotted. Both these species of cetaceans live permanently in the channel between Tenerife and La Gomera. |