Diving and snorkeling paradise

Nicaragua offers a wide range of diving and snorkeling locations. Off the Corn Islands and some of the Pearl Cays, snorkeling is superb. While the Miskito Cays may also have excellent diving, they are regrettably inaccessible. Do your part to promote the preservation of these still-beautiful but vulnerable ecosystems by beginning on Corn or Little Corn Island.

A total of 12 kilometers of the reef are shared between Corn Island and Little Corn Island. A modest, friendly diving shop is located on each island to outfit divers and transport them to dive destinations. A remarkable variety of fauna, including rays, eels, angelfish, groupers, sharks, and vast pools of African pompano, may be found in the reef systems of both islands. Although diving off the Corn Islands is magnificent, the most spectacular and unquestionably top-notch spot is located approximately 25 treacherous kilometers farther out to sea, near a sea mound known as Blowing Rock.

Additionally, diving is also available on Nicaragua's Pacific coast, especially in the southern region around San Juan del Sur, however, the weather can be unpredictable (visibility can change from 1 to 20 meters from day to day). Here, there are rock reefs instead of coral formations, and there are big fish such as multicolored wrasses, parrotfish, snappers, and enormous surgeonfish living there. Due to overfishing, shark populations that were once thriving have drastically decreased.