FROGGY POND
Just five km south of Simon's Town is a small beach which is used for setting up your diving gear and as a shore entry point for exploring this area. Froggy Pond is just north of A-Frame and is known because of its huge amounts of red, green and brownish seaweeds. It is a sheltered dive site and doesn't have huge number of fish. Some octopus and cuttlefish are always present and should be enough for a nice relaxing dive.The open rocks are quite bare, but there is a long horizontal crevice at quite shallow depth on the north side of the point which has a lot in and around it. It seems to be open at the back as a strong surge runs through it which may be unpleasant in a larger swell. Shallow areas have lots of pear limpets on top of the rocks, urchins a bit deeper with fairly sparse Red bait, Common feather stars deeper still. Deepest reefs have some Elegant feather stars too, and Mauve and Red chested cucumbers. The sand is fairly bare, with a few buried horseshoe cucumbers, some long siphoned whelks, sand stars and puffadder shy sharks. Kelp on the rocks is fairly sparse, although there are a lot of twiggy corallines in the shallows with more crustose corallines deeper. It is a shallow dive but there is a10m contour which is about 200m out at the end of the reef south of Froggy Pond