Dive report - West Side Friday 31 July 2009

Two awesome dives to round out July here on the Ningaloo Reef in Exmouth.  O's Wall was teeming with fish life of all shapes, colours and sizes.  It was visual overload in places as schools of shimmery baitfish lined the wall and schools of bigeye trevally zoomed past on the other side of us.  A gorgeous spotted eagle ray took his time swimming towards us and then effortlessly left us far behind. A big loggerhead turtle didn't even blink as we all came in for a good luck, he just sat there, small wrasse pecking debris from his shell.
WATER TEMP: 21C
VISIBILITY: 105m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 22m

Central Station was buzzing! We had manta rays on the cleaning stations and along the reef at other points on the site. Doesn't matter how many times we see these guys, it's always a thrill! Huge roughback rays were lounging in the sand and orange, blue & green parrotfish chomped noisly the whole dive. Our favourite West Side school of threadfin pearl perch were hanging out almost motionless and two confused small spangled emperors had joined them in watching the world go by.
WATER TEMP: 23C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 16m