Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Friday 2 October 2009

Another fabulous day of diving in Exmouth!  Today we dropped in at Labyrinth first and it was turtle mayhem - turtles sleeping, turtles gnawing on coral, turtles swimming alongside the divers, turtles on the suface, turtles heading up and down for a breath or a snooze in the sun.  We saw turtles!  When we weren't being distracted by all the turtles, we saw white tip reef sharks, schooling batfish, lots of cleaning action, masses of butterflyfish and plentiful nudibranchs. Fun, fun, fun!
WATER TEMP: 22C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Blizzard Ridge was second on our list and we dived a different section than yesterday's visit. Again there were tons of schooling fish - trevally, sea perch, threadfin pearl perch, fusiliers, glassfish - and lots of cleaning action with the cleaner wrasse teaming up to give rankin & estuary cods multi-fish scrubs. Olive sea snakes are starting to feel a little frisky again and there were several individuals chasing other individuals who didn't seem overly interested in the attention! Action packed dive today.
WATER TEMP: 22C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Humpback whales were all along our route again today and we could hear them singing, especially at Blizzard. Spring is awesome!