Located 40 nautical miles north west of Kawthaung, High Rock is often the first dive site visited on a Burma liveaboard safari as the closer islands are out of bounds to dive boats. It is a small limestone rock and is very recognizable by the single tree on top and is a wonderful appetizer to what Burma diving has to offer. Underwater the north and east sides is mainly vertical wall diving whereas the south and west sides is sloping boulder and coral reef. 
Marine life on High Rock is very dense with large schools of fish covering the reef walls including blue and yellow snapper, fusiliers, Forsters barracuda, schooling bannerfish and several wrasse species. Silversides move as one in and out from the wall and can engulf divers as they flee from raiding trevallies.
Triggerfish, leatherjackets and flute fish are also common along with puffer fish, freckled porcupinefish and lionfish. Bearded scorpionfish number in the thousands so touching the reef anywhere is not a wise move. If the scorpionfish don’t get you a long spine sea urchin might. Moray eels are everywhere including white-eyed, fimbriated, giant and yellow margined varieties. Often more than one species of moray can be seen occupying the same hole. Continued >>
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