Diving report - West Side Friday 5 June 2009

Boy is the West Side rocking!  We're taking advantage of it while we can as some of these sites are only comfortably accessible for a few months each year.  Dive one was at the Floats and we didn't know where to look first!  Schools of sweetlips hung out at the peak of one of the hills, a big school of surgeonfish tumbled over the side of the hill into one of the canyons before repeating it on the next lump and baitfish choked every nook & cranny.  Two top sights today were - a manta ray and an eagle ray that swam by the divers!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 20m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 16m

Central Station was slightly quieter but there was a terrific variety of creatures along our dive and most of them were content to just hang out with us without swimming away. The cod population here is growing and we couldn't go 10m without seeing more of these big guys. Best sight on this dive - massively huge loggerhead turtle. Hard to believe how big these guys can get!
WATER TEMP: 21C
VISIBILITY: 15+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 16m