Cape Maeda
★★★★★
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Cape Maeda in Onna Village, Okinawa, is famed for its “Blue Cave,” where sunlight creates a magical blue glow. Featuring drop-offs, vertical holes, and depths to 30–40m, it hosts diverse marine life from schools of fish to sunfish, offering excitement for both beginners and advanced divers.
Cape Maeda offers migratory fish, yasha and hammerhead gobies, sparrows, butterflyfish, wrasses, nudibranchs, plus sea turtles and Napoleon fish.
Dive Activity
Potential Wildlife Sightings
Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content
Shutterstock-Shane Myers Photography
13 Sightings
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The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 300
Alamy/Reinhard Dirscherl
Octopus
11 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 600
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Wrasse
10 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 200
Alamy-WaterFrame
Moray Eel
9 Sightings
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Shutterstock-Andrey Armyagov
Hawksbill Turtle
3 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 27
iStock-Global_Pics
Barracuda
2 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 28
Udo Kefrig
Clownfish
36 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 100
iStock-burnsboxco
Parrotfish
33 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 40
iStock-wrangel
Triggerfish
23 Sightings
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The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 90
Shutterstock-Rich Carey
Angelfish
22 Sightings
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