The house reef features the ubiquitous anthyias, grouper, a few octopus (or perhaps octopi), peppered moray, soapfish, frogfish, lionfish, anemonefish, sailfin tang, parrot fish etc etc. It's a bit deep for snorkeling, but we saw a wonderful feathertail stingray resting on top one day. There is a small reef garden away left of the jetty, in no more than 4m and with loads of different types of fish including most of those you find on the main reef - even some surprisingly large moray. In more open water there are a few barracuda, red sea bannerfish, fusiliers, mullet, bream, cornet fish. The little pier hosts lions, damsels, bream and snappers. The bit of rocky stuff right by the beach has a resident blue trigger, a few puffers, three species of lionfish, cleaner wrasse, tiny juvenile boxfish and small peppered and snowflake morays. Walk offthe hotel to the left (north) and over the sandy bottom there are sand divers and razor wrasse (I also saw a whiptail stingray here) further there is a nice reef bay with pipfish, broomtail wrasse, masked and lined angelfish...

Funniest thing was when a shark sucker turned up off the beach and tried to hitch a ride off the swimmers.

How much time do you have for snorkelling?
Oh, and I forgot the cuttlefish and dolphins (if you are lucky and there are some squid around to attract them).