Friday, June 5, 2009

Whale Shark report - Monday 1 June 2009

Super day out!  We of course had to check out Central Station for our dive on Ningaloo Reef and schools of fish were the order of the day. There were good sized school of threadfin pearl perch hanging in the blue on the edge of the reef and a large school of surgeonfish rolled over the reef in a nearly endless march. Some of the divers with good eyes managed to find the tiniest eel poking out of a hole and porcelain crabs were waving their mitts around from under their host anemones, hoping to catch dinner. We also had manta rays!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: slight
DEPTH: 16m

A gorgeous blue water day made for terrific snorkelling with the whale sharks on our Whale Shark Adventure. As has been the norm for almost this whole season, we had multiple whale sharks and multiple drops with most of them again today. Their spots and stripes really shimmered with the sunlight - it was gorgeous! Oh, wait, we said that already (but it's totally worth repeating!)

We got to watch some traveling humpbacks come very close to us with a group of three surfacing not more than 20m from the boat! And there were manta rays.

Like we said, gorgeous!

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