Dive report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 23 September 2009

Exmouth has been unusually windy with a big swell and it has limited our diving over the past few weeks, but happily we've been able to head out to the Muiron Islands every few days for some great diving and snorkeling.

Today we started at Keyhole for some awesome soft corals, tons of fish, a few turtles and a couple of huge sting rays. The sailfin catfish appear to have had more babies recently as there were 5 or 6 separate balls of rolling babies tucked up next to ledges. A big fat moray eel was having a dentist appointment - amazing how wide they can open their mouths! Beautiful parrotfish loudly crunched coral but they couldn't come close to competing with the humpback whales singing for volume!
WATER TEMP: 21C
VISIBILITY: 8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 12m

We headed around to the East Side of South Muiron Island for some snorkelling and our second dive. East Side Bommies are always interesting and today was no exception. Most of the site is very shallow, but everything - including big guys - seem to come in and hang out. Today we had a group of four huge barracuda slowly circling the site, stacked one on top of each other. There's been an explosion of humbugs with 100s of the pretty black & white fish darting in and out of the safety of the staghorn coral in perfect synchronization.
WATER TEMP: 21C
VISIBILITY: 8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 10m