We started at Cod Spot and it lived up to its name with all sizes and types of cods darting to and fro chasing mid morning snacks. White tip reef sharks were patrolling the reef edge and sticking their noses in crevices - we haven't seen this much activity from them in quite a while. Ningaloo Reef's endemic sailfin catfish seem to have produced a lot of babies this year...there are rolling balls of juveniles everywhere we looked. A huge roughback relaxed in the sand and didn't pay any attention to us at all.
WATER TEMP: 22C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: moderate
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 16m
Whalebone was awesome again. This is such a colourful site and it is always teeming with fish of all sizes. Quite a few many spotted sweetlip were grouped together at the top of the site, just keeping an eye on things as the world passed them by. More white tip reef sharks were out and about here, but they weren't as active as they had been at Cod Spot. The gorgeous gorgonian fans were playing host to what seemed like countless small triplefins. A spotted barramundi cod kept us amused for ages playing hide and seek. Two great dives.
WATER TEMP: 22C
VISIBILITY: 8-12m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m
We enjoyed a leisurely snorkel in Turtle Bay after lunch and a bit of relaxing on the boat. Turtles, rays, sharks, parrotfish, eels...the snorkel site was really showing off today.
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