Dive Review of Mustuque Divers /Firefly Resort in
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Mustuque Divers /Firefly Resort, Nov, 2009, by Craig Condron, Washington, U.S.A. ( Reviewer 6 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 5288.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Value for $$
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Comments	My wife (none diver) and I have been traveling the past 19 years to all corners of the Caribbean Sea. From Belize (where I was certified in 1992) to the British Virgin Islands, Bahamas to Tobago and many islands in between, but hadn't found an area like the small island feel off the main island of Fiji in the Pacific. Small private quaint resorts on small islands with good food and service. In my wifes research she found the Grenadines. Our first stop was the Firefly Resort on Mustique. A five room resort built on the hill over looking the sail boats in the harbor. Swimming pool, dining deck and lounge all looking over the harbor and the sunsets to the west. Each room comes with an electric golf cart for your tranportation on the island. Handy for visiting the varies beaches and to get to Mustique Divers (5 minutes) shop, located near the Cotton House, the other small resort(20 or so rooms) on the island. Mustique Divers is a small operation with one boat. The three dives I had here (single tank dives offered A.M./P.M.) there were only one or two other divers besides the divemaster (Jan or Brian). Our stay here was during the second week of November, so this may be a slower time for them. Jan and Brian gave good briefings. There job was made easy because with only 3 divers, myself being a divemaster, we would keep the 1 or 2 divers between us. The dive sites were 5 to 10 minutes North of Mustique. On my first dive, just after entering, I noticed a cloud to my left. I assumed it was goat fish digging in the sand, but then realized the cloud was coming out of a barrel sponge. They were spawning. As we drifted down to 100' we noticed several sponges that looked like smoldering barrels. The seascape was typical Caribbean, gregorians, seafans and a scattering of sponges with little or no coral. In the rocky areas, Sergeant Majors were doing their best to protect their purple patchs of eggs from Bluehead and Yellowhead Wrasse and Blue Tangs who were overwhelming the efforts of the Sergeant Majors. Many of the small varieties of fish such as the fish just mentioned as well as Bicolor Damselfish, Trumpetfish, Scrawled Cowfish and Smooth Trunkfish roamed the bottom. What was not present was any large fish. Saw as small black Margate and a few small schools of Grunts, that was it. The vis was not bad (60' to 80') with water temperatures around 80F. All 3 dives were drift dives in a moderate current. My one complaint is typical of most Caribbean divemasters, they kick with the current causing to double the speed when the current in itself is a comfortable cruising speed. And divers would use less air if they would only ride the current. SLOW DOWN, ENJOY THE SEASCAPE. Now off to Petit St Vincent, a 10 minute flight to the south.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	All Points of the Caribbean. Pacific Ocean Hawaiian Islands to the Great Barrier Reef, Fiji to Tahiti.
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	80-81°F / 27-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	50-80 Ft/ 15-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	All the dive were drift dives in moderate current, therefore we stayed together as a group, Divers were sent up the drift line as they become low on air.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Mustuque Divers /Firefly Resort in St. Vincent and the Grenadines/Mustuque

Mustuque Divers /Firefly Resort, Nov, 2009,

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Dive Review of Mustuque Divers /Firefly Resort in
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