Dive report - Muiron Islands Sunday 5 April 2009

Fantastic conditions let us dive Skywalker's, a crew favourite that isn't always accessible and is always a treat! Today's dive had a serious number of schooling fish, tons of colourful reef fish, turtles, moray eels, nudibranchs and just generally so much stuff it was visual overload. The 20m+ visibility didn't hurt, either! The highlight of the dive was a tawny nurse shark that cruised past the divers a couple of times during the dive.
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 20+m
CURRENT: very mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

We did our second dive at Key Hole and it was crazy with fish life, too. The visibility wasn't as good here, but there was plenty of feeding action right in your face, so it didn't matter too much. Everyone was delighted with the turtles, nudibranchs, butterflyfish and other usual suspects and then...another tawny nurse shark! We don't see these sharks regularly so to see one on each dive was really special.
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 8-12m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

We snorkelled through the Turtle Beach area in a gentle current. Lots of anemonefish, some medium sized barracuda, a great variety of parrotfish munching coral, blue spotted stingrays and, of course, turtles.