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Racha Yai - Lucie's Reef
GPS Location: 07-35-54N 98-22-28E
Max Depth: 5-24M
Currents: Mild to strong
Visibility: 15M-30M
Diver Level: Beginner
Lucy’s Reef lies between Bay 3 and Bay 4. Bay 3, with the exception of a few hard coral heads in the shallows is mostly sand slope. As one heads South, leaving the bay, the sand gives way to hard coral slope again similar to that of Staghorn Reef.
Marine Life consists of common reef fish like angelfish, butterflyfish, damsels, groupers, wrasses and surgeonfish. In the depths at around 18M fields of spotted garden eels can be seen swaying in the current. Often mistaken for whip corals, observe closely and you will see them before they retract shyly into their holes. Thornback boxfish and the rare seamoth have been sighted in the sand at Bay 3 too. Flounders, Kuhl’s stingray, starry morays and banded snake eels are often encountered too. Schools of Foster’s barracuda are common in this area and a hawksbill turtle has been spotted here in the past and was affectionately named Lucy, hence the site’s name.
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