Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 14 October 2009

Pretty, pretty day after several days of annoyingly windy conditions!  We started at Whalebone and the schools were plentiful: big-toothed Jacks, sweetlips, fusilers, surgeonfish and bannerfish.  A couple of good sized barracuda kept watch over the reef while staying just on the edge of our vision for most of the dive.  Nudibranch lovers were delighted to find multiple Notodoris citrina nudis showing off their bright yellow, bumpy selves. Colour, action, masses of fish - great location today!
WATER TEMP: 23C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

The swim-throughs at Keyhole were amazing - jam packed with baitfishes, rockcod & coral cods lining the walls, white tip reef sharks waiting for us on the other end. There was an expolosion of colour here today, too. Lots of different types of nudibranchs, soft corals with their polyps out, giant clams with mantles spread wide. More white tips all over the site and parrotfish munch munch munching away almost drowning out the whale song we could heear!
WATER TEMP: 23C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 10m

East Side Bommies put on a show for us over lunch and during our leisurely snorkel. We had turtles, sharks, blue spotted rays, big big schools of convict surgeons, a school of orange barred surgeonfish, numerous many spotted sweetlips, more green, orange & pink parrotfish, millions of sparkly damsels & anthias...

The humpback whales are still abundant and we watched them for almost the entire journeys out and back. One whale was doing a headstand for us...he would slowly lower himself so only the tip of his fluke was showing then suddenly he'd push straight up so he was standing out of the water almost all the way to his pectoral fins! It was amazing to watch; we've not seen one do this over and over like this before.

Yet another amazing day of diving on the Ningaloo Reef with Exmouth Diving Centre!