She's devoted most of her 3 1/2 years of diving to the Ningaloo Reef out of Exmouth and has explored the reef from Coral Bay and the colder waters off Dunsborough in the southern part of Western Australia, too.
Her interest in this area started long ago - at only 6 years old! She decided then that she wanted to live in Western Australia and that she just had to swim with whale sharks. She came for a week's visit over 3.5 years ago and hasn't left yet! Her favourite dive memory is from a dive she did 2 1/2 years ago at Nick's Lumps, one of our great West Side dive spots, when a whale shark swam by!
Alyson is one of our super spotters; it seems like she finds something cool on every dive...and it's usually teeny tiny! Check out some of our recent dive reports for her finds and keep an eye out for more from her. Nudibranchs are her favourite critters because the Ningaloo Reef always has a new one to find and some of them are so tiny it's a great challenge to your observation skills!
Her passion for diving and the ocean is contagious and her Open Water students (actually, everyone she dives with!) always have huge grins on their faces after the ocean dives! It's her favourite course to teach as she loves to show others the amazingly wonderful world that's under the surface.
She's just recently added her first PADI Distinctive Specialty rating - Whale Shark Interaction - to her course list and listening to her talk about whale sharks makes you want to jump in with them right now!!
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