Trip report: Sal, Cape Verde [2/3] - freediving

I was expecting more from these tropical waters. I was reading other reports describing clear water, various sea life, good diving conditions, attractions like wrecks, resident manta rays, etc. There is also a nice cave, but you need scuba or be a much better freediver than me to go there.

It was OK overall, but for example I failed to find anything worth looking at depths shallower than 5 meters. It means there were nothing interesting for Julia to see, so I was diving alone. It took me 2 days to find more or less attractive reefs, and I still had to swim 200 meters off the coast, and then to dive to 10+ meters to see anything interesting. I tried to book a trip on a boat but it was cancelled because of high waves. And it was cancelled for good - places they wanted to get us to are reachable from the shore any way.

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All underwater pics (28) are in picasa album