Dive report - West Side Monday 6 July 2009

The stellar conditions continued today and made Floats our first stop.  All of the usual Floats creatures - schools of sweetlips, roaming barracuda, tumbling surgeonfish, thick walls of baitfish, snooty potato cod, tons of other fishes - were here and we had some special visitors.  A huge moray eel had most of his body out of his hole, mouth opening and closing, small cleaner wrasse darting here and there along his back.  A huge bull ray dozed in the sand his wingspan larger than a diver.  Twin manta rays buzzed the divers and circled in the sunrays near the surface.
WATER TEMP: 2C
VISIBILITY: 20m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 18m

Central Station also had an abundance of usual suspects as well as more nudibranchs than we've seen for a while. A big, old loggerhead turtle opened one eye to see what we were before dismissing us by going back to sleep. Three manta rays cruised through the cleaning station and along the reef edge, coming in nice and close to the line of divers before drifting away and doing it all over again.
WATER TEMP: 23C
VISIBILITY: 15-20m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 15m