Scuba diving, free diving or just snorkelling in Lanzarote reveals an underwater landscape of pure amazement. 

The island is surrounded by volcanic reefs where lava spilled into the sea of centuries leaving a fantastic habitat for many types of marine animals. Many types of local fish, Bass, Parrot fish, Rays, Angel Sharks, Tuna, Barracuda are just some of the options you can catch a glimpse at. If you look really hard Octopus and Sea Horses are also making a life for themselves in the reef.

On a recent free diving session Joss and I saw a pretty spectacular site indeed. I dived down to the sea bed and just before I touch the sand a huge ray, I estimate was about 2 metres in size, emerged from the sand and flapped its wings to swim away from me! I’m not sure who was the most surprised, the ray or myself!

A top tip for seeing the wildlife in the sea if to take a plastic bag of broken up stale bread into the water with you, release the bread into the sea and wait for the fish to notice!

Scuba diving is also available via our dive school partner and we’ll do another blog post specifically about Scuba soon.