Dive Report - Lighthouse Bay Friday 10 April 2009

A little late in coming, but here's the report for four sites in Lighthouse Bay from Good Friday.

Bedrock is a dive site we don't get to visit very often because it can have pretty strong currents, so we need to pick our days carefully.  Swarms of fish surrounded the divers as we swam from coral bommie to coral bommie.  Schools of sweetlips hung out on the tops of ridges, swaying back & forth in the light surge.  Stingrays, eels, shrimps, damsels, humbugs, parrotfish...excellent fish dive!
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 10+m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 11m

Lassiter's was also busy with an enormous variety and number of fish. A couple of curious turtles checked us out before going back to sleep. White tip reef sharks mostly lazed on the sand with one eye on the divers, moving a few feet before dropping back onto the bottom in a puff of sand.
WATER TEMP: 298C
VISIBILITY: 10+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 11m

Labyrinth was going off! Massive schools of baitfish were again being hammered by all manner of big predator fish like trevally, barracuda and cod. If you hovered for a minute or two, the school would surround you and you could barely see the camera, the fish were so dense. There were also a huge number of big batfish - some were at the cleaning stations on the bottom while others were dancing mid-water and right on the surface. We had so much activity that it's almost easy to forget that there were turtles everywhere you looked - including one that was almost as big as I am!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 12-15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild to moderate
DEPTH: 14m

Blizzard Ridge was missing some of the bigger cod that had been feeding on the baitfish (we saw the cods at Labyrinth!) so the baitfish seemed far more relaxed today. Olive sea snakes were poking around under ledges and octopus were sitting up on coral outcrops. The schools of snapper, threadfin pearl perch and fusiliers were even bigger than they have been and if you hung motionless in midwater, the school would slowly move around and completely screen out the rest of the world. It's an incredible feeling.
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 13m

Exmouth Diving Centre heads out for two morning reef dives every day except Wednesday & Sunday all year round, so why not join us soon?! Drop us an email and we will help sort out a great schedule of diving no matter when you visit.