Exmouth Diving report - Sunday 4 October 2009

Muiron Islands here we come!  Today was magnificent with great divers, lovely weather, fabulous marine life action and nice visibility.  We started with a dive at Cod Spot and once again it was going off!  Masses of fish of every shape, size and colour covered the reef.  Big cod hung out in midwater just off the reef structures and barracuda would zip through balls of baitfish faster than speeding bullets.  Nudibranchs, crabs, small eels and mantis shrimp were abundant.  This was one of those all around great dives!
WATER TEMP: 23C
VISIBILITY: 15+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 17m

We moved over to Keyhole for dive two and it was stunningly gorgeous. The water was a deep, jewel blue and all of the soft corals seemed to have a spotlight of sun rays beaming directly onto them. This is always a lovely site, but today it was an OOOOooooo AAAAaaaahhhh site! A couple of small white tip reef sharks were swimming random patterns over the sand and big groups of parrotfish were munching away on the hard corals. Stunning Emperor Angelfish seemed to be everywhere we looked (or there were two very fast ones always staying a step ahead of us!) and we also saw a couple still with their juvenile patterns. Our best sighting today was a rarity indeed: two Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins came in for a bit of a gander and a playful circle around one of our dive groups! Awesome!
WATER TEMP: 23C
VISIBILITY: 15+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

Turtles, rays, anemonefish, schools of convict surgeons, big trevally and countless other types of fish joined us for yet another great snorkel at Turtle Bay. Humpback whales played alongside the boat and entertained us with their antics all along our route. It's good to be out diving in Exmouth!