Home Travel Diving Running Kids Mail us		Sunday 4 August One great excitement of this trip was that the kids all completed their diving training and were able to come diving with us. Tommy, Louise, Johnny and Anna were soon spotting turtles, eels and stingrays with the rest of us. Fi then whizzed through her training in record time resulting in eight divers in the villa - a real boat load. The diving in Tobago was all it was made out to be. Good hard and soft coral and an abundance of large and small fish. A few dives were disappointing but generally we saw clouds of fish, huge angel fishes, turtles, rays and some more unusual monsters of the deep. Returning from a dive off Castara Beach the skipper suddenly slowed the boat and turned back to inspect what looked like a shark fin. On closer inspection it turned out to be a sun fish - about 5 feet long with no tail, instead propelling itself by huge dorsal and ventral fins. This made more common sightings from the boat such as these pelicans very mundane. At Arnos Vale we find a large octopus sitting on a reef wall. With a bit of provocation he swims off into the blue. A trip to Speyside in the north of the island allows us to dive some of the most spectacular sites, including Coral Gardens where Tommy inspects one of the largest brain corals in the world. We wanted to dive Flying Reef on the Atlantic side of the island but the conditions were poor until our last day when we had a fantastic dive. We watched as this large nurse shark caught and ate its lunch (not us) and also saw several rays and black tipped sharks. More Tobago: