Dive report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 22 April 2009

A cranking swell gave us the excuse we needed to explore some different dive sites on our trip to the Muiron Islands today.  We hit Dinner Party first up and it was covered in schools of baitfish, bullseyes and other small fishes.  Big rankin cod skulked just above the schools, waiting for just the right moment to swoop in for an easy buffet lunch.  A small group of batfish swam close to the divers before heading for the surface where they drifted in the sun for a while before buzzing the divers again.
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 9m

East Side Bommies is always amazing. It's a shallow site and made up of a series of coral bommies sporting soft corals, small sea fans and lots of pretty - but stinging - hydroids. It also seems to always have some huge fish hanging out and today was no exception with enormous grouper cruising the edges and golden trevally zipping through the site throughout our dive time. Humbugs, damsels, anthias, several kinds of butterflyfish and various angelfish stick close to the coral and provide mulit-coloured sparkle. A turtle had a look at us and decided we were boring so toddled off to find something else to entertain him.
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 8m

A very lazy drift through our snorkel site gave us turtles, rays, two white tip reef sharks, anemonefish, eels and quite a few juvenile angelfish just changing their colours to the adult pattern.