GSC #49 🪸 Reef Site 🤿 Snorkel Friendly

East End - Frank Sound Little House on the Prairie

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Mooring Pin
29 ft
Max Depth
60 ft
⏱️
From Dock
25 min
Little House on the Prairie Bedtime Story 🌙
Listen to a story written by Faith Decena
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Named for a small house sitting along the shoreline that captains used to line up with a utility pole to locate the site before mooring balls, Little House on the Prairie is a Swiss cheese paradise full of holes. After spending some time on the open reef to the south, divers pick their way through the interconnected tunnels below the boat like intrepid explorers. Black Bar Soldierfish can be found in little nooks in the reef, often wearing highly fashionable isopod headgear — small crustaceans that live on the fish's head and eat the scraps from their messy meals.

Little House has amazing formations of hard corals right by the boat, including Lobed Star Coral and Mountainous Star Coral, making it one of the go-to sites for coral spawning night dives each fall. Close inspection of these corals reveals the extraordinary reality that tiny individual polyps have built these immense structures over centuries. The combination of daytime tunnel exploration and nighttime spawning spectacle makes Little House one of the most versatile and rewarding sites in the Frank Sound zone.

Hand-drawn briefing map of Little House on the Prairie

Specifications

🪸 Site Type Shallow Reef
📌 Mooring Pin Depth 29 ft
⬇ Max Depth 60 ft
⏱️ Drive Time 25 min from dock
GSC Zone F Frank Sound
🤿 Snorkelling Yes
📄 Dive Permit None

Ratings

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