We cruised, watching humpbacks play along our route, to Cod Spot for the first dive of the day and it was teeming with big fish. There were lots of white tip reef sharks, masses of schooling fusiliers and very large jacks spinning around the main bommie. An enormous roughback stingray ignored us as he lazed in the sand. Unusually big semi-circular angelfish seemed to be everywhere, but if you looked carefully you could also see quite a few tiny juveniles dancing in and out of crevices.
WATER TEMP: 22-23C
VISIBILITY: 10-15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none to mild
DEPTH: 16m
Dive two was at Key Hole and again there were numerous white tip reef sharks all over the site. The coolest sight today had to be the schooling barracuda - streaks of silver with big menacing jaws just circling and circling endlessly. It was awesome. A group of 150+ convict surgeons flashed their yellow selves over and over the reef, first tumbling over the top and then cascading down the side of a ledge. They move so fast it's amazing they don't bump into each other! This site also had lots of small critters: nudibranchs, sailfin catfish, little coral crabs, moray eels no bigger around than an index finger. One of those great dives!
WATER TEMP: 22-25C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m
We enjoyed a huge lunch and a big snorkel through Turtle Bay. It was very active with turtles, rays, sharks, parrotfish, small cod and tons of sparkly small reef fish in all colours of the rainbow. Extremely pretty today.
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