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Cypress Garden

Cypress Garden, tucked within the Hol Chan Marine Reserve off Ambergris Caye, is a solid second dive. The reef starts shallow, sloping down to about 30 meters, and it’s a site where you genuinely see a lot of activity. We’ve bumped into more than a few nurse sharks here, along with a couple of green turtles just cruising the reef top. Look for the undercuts; they’re little homes for spotted drums, arrow crabs, and all sorts of shrimp, and you’ll often find bluehead wrasse busy at their cleaning stations. The coral growth is interesting too, with thin leaf lettuce corals and some less common pillar corals pushing up amongst the sea rods and fans. Expect plenty of yellowtails and French grunts schooling about. It’s a site that always delivers a good, relaxed dive.