Beverly Hills was first up for diving and it was going off! A gargantuan school of baitfish was getting hammered by trevally, rankin cod, potato cod, estuary cod, snappers and the odd large mackerel zipping through. The swim throughs were packed with fish of all sizes and white tip reef sharks buzzed along the top of the site. The coolest thing on this site for many of the divers was a group of 9 large bullrays just lazing around in the sand. They weren't very active, but they covered a lot of ground since each of them was huge!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 20m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 22m
We had a little reef snorkel on Three Fins before doing our second dive of the day and as we were snorkelling along, what should pass us by? Humpback whales! They are incredible to see effortlessly glide by you while you're just hanging out on the surface!
Three Fins rocked underwater, too. A huge estuary cod and a big estuary cod were having a discussion about whose territory this was - very neat to watch! Manta rays cavorted above us, right near the surface - their silhouettes outlined by streaming sunbeams were pretty spectacular. In places along the reef the baitfish were so thick you could barely see where you were going. Yellow & silver-green flutemouths hung vertically along one wall of the site.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 20m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 18m
Before heading back inside the reef for more snorkeling we took a little detour - to watch hundreds of spinner dolphins speeding along in front of the boat! Amazing!
We did another snorkel at Coral Bommies and the fish life there was outstanding, too. Quite a few larger than usual cods were patrolling the area while all of the usual colourful parrotfish, blue spotted rays, anemonefish, butterfly & angelfish went about their business.
An exceptional day out on the ocean!
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