Bluff Point

Bluff Point marks the entrance to and exit from the gulf with an automatic lighthouse powered by solar panels. It is a 10 m round white fiberglass tower that gives a white flash every 5 seconds. The lighthouse stands on the west side of the strait, opposite the Shag Rock lighthouse, about 10 km away. The construction date of the current lighthouse is unknown, and an earlier light stood on a tall post near it. It is also where safari boats wait before crossing the strait and often spend the night, and the anchorage fills up by late afternoon.

There are hard and soft corals, small grottoes with coral fish and numerous black corals (Antipatharia). Passages and inlets in the rock shelter marine life, and the reef has glassfish, butterflyfish, crocodilefish and a flat-headed scorpionfish. Rays, tunas, mackerels, snappers, stonefish, lionfish, morays, octopus and barracuda also appear, and turtles are quite common.

In the Gubal area, sea turtles hunt small crustaceans and mollusks on the reefs and tend to lay their eggs in spring. Bottlenose dolphins from a large resident group off Gubal are often seen.