Dive report - Muiron Islands Sunday 19 April 2009

Our twice weekly trips to the Muiron Islands are always a treat and today we visited two of our favourite sites.  Jaws was full of colour today with every sort of angelfish and butterflyfish imaginable flitting over the corals and yellow trumpetfish gliding effortlessly through the blue water.  A good variety of nudibranchs dotted the reefscape while many spotted sweetlips and turtles hung out near hills.  Oh, and should I mention the dolphins who buzzed us underwater again?!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 12m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild to moderate
DEPTH: 12m

Whalebone's bright soft corals and sea fans were an awesome backdrop to all of the fish zooming here, there and everywhere. A school of good-sized batfish floated up and down for the whole dive and didn't seem bothered by the divers getting up close at all. A couple of nice white tip reef sharks swam slowly along the reef before plonking themselves down in a puff of sand, just off the edge of the reef.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 12m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 12m

Our big snorkel through Turtle Bay was super - tons of fish of all sizes and colours, turtles, blue spotted stingrays and a couple of very large cod all kept up company on the slow drift.