Just above Palm Island, are some crevices in the reef where nurse sharks sleep during the day, allowing you to come up very close and even letting you stroke them. Downwards of Palm Island lies the wreck of the Jane C , a sunken coaster just outside the coral reef, an interesting place, there's many fish around, in and under the wreck and if you have seen it all, just head into the coral reef for a bit more excitement. The sea has taken possession of the wreck and corals grow everywhere on the steel plates of decks and cabins, softcorals wave in the current going in and out of the ports. On we go, to the part opposite Barcadera called the wall , a very beautiful reef where often green turtles visit. Diving over the edge down the steep wall is an exiting experience, gorgons spread their long branches, dark crevices and grotto's hide groupers, murenes and burr-fishes.
Black coral grows here.
On the upper part of the reef are fine examples of star and flowercorals, while enormous sheetcorals abound more inshore. Grooved, knobby and smooth braincorals grow every-where in between, with scroll and ribbon corals. Rockbeauty's, damselfish and porgy's swim back and forth, jackknife fishes peer from under coral mounds, while the beautifully colored glassy sweepers group together under an overhang. Past the harbor entrance of Barcadera the coral grows thin, due to the sand, the enemy of all corals. Only the bigger kinds, like staghorn, elkhorn and pillarcoral grow near to the reef islands.