Lahami Bay Buoy 2 Housereef
24.1969°N 35.4388°E · reef
Lahami Bay Buoy 2 Housereef is one of the named outer housereef sections of Lahami Bay Beach Resort (Extra Divers Lahami Bay), accessible by the resort’s fellukas or zodiac from the beach station in Hamata, southern Egyptian Red Sea. The resort designates sections of its 1.5 km housereef by buoy numbers, with Buoy 2 marking a specific reef section accessed by small boat.
Overview
The Lahami Bay Beach Resort housereef is described as a banana-shaped coral ridge running parallel to the beach. Outer housereef sections — including those accessed at Buoy 2 — are reached by fellukas (traditional wooden boats) with a minimum of two trips daily. These outer sections offer more developed coral formations, drop-offs, and the potential for encounters with pelagic species that are not accessible by swimming from the beach.
Marine Life
The Lahami Bay outer housereef zone typically offers:
- Coral gardens with hard and soft coral diversity
- Reef fish: groupers, angelfish, parrotfish, triggerfish
- Moray eels and lionfish in reef crevices
- Sea turtles as regular visitors
- Potential reef shark sightings at outer reef sections
Dive Profile
Small boat (felluca/zodiac) access from the beach station. Depth and specific topography for Buoy 2 section not confirmed in available sources. Typical Hamata housereef depth ranges 5–25 m.
Site Information
- Location: Hamata / Lahami Bay, southern Egyptian Red Sea
- Entry Type: Boat dive
- Site Type: Reef
- Maximum Depth: 25 meters
- Difficulty: Intermediate
Sources: Extra Divers Lahami Bay, Regal Dive – Lahami Bay. Last updated 2026-05-17.
Sea-surface temperature and wave height from Open-Meteo Marine (ERA5 reanalysis, monthly averages).
34 verified species observations (26 species) logged within ~11 km of this site between 1904 and 2011, from the Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
- Syngnathidae · Pipefishes
- Saurida gracilis · Slender Lizardfish
- Fowleria isostigma
- Sousa chinensis · Chinese white dolphin
- Doryrhamphus excisus · Bluestripe Pipefish
- Fowleria variegata
- Negaprion
- Tursiops aduncus · Indian ocean bottlenose dolphin
- Helcogramma obtusirostris
- Pseudorca crassidens · False killer whale
- Enneapterygius obscurus
- Stomatella auricula
Scientific survey records skew toward sampled taxa (molluscs, corals) and do not reflect what you are guaranteed to see on a dive.
Source: OBIS (obis.org), aggregated Darwin Core occurrence records.
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