Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay 24 November 2009

Outstanding day for diving on the Ningaloo Reef here in Exmouth! Blizzard Ridge was hopping with so many fish we couldn't see where we were going in some places. The olive sea snakes are abundant and active - circling, snoozing, swimming lazily alongside the divers, exploring holes in the reef, chasing each other. We also saw more moray eels and octopus than we could count. Incredibly filled with critters today!
WATER TEMP: 22C
VISIBILITY: 20m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m

Labyrinth was also teeming with marine life. Turtles were scattered all over the reef and most of them had a nice variety of cleaners - shrimps & fishes - polishing their shells. A small school of mid-sized batfish teased us by coming in close and then effortlessly rising quickly to the surface, swinging around behind us and again getting very close to our heads. Big batfish enjoyed the cleaner wrasse on the cleaning stations. Pink anemonefish were being adventurous - swimming high above their anemones before diving into the heart of the tentacles & peeking over to see if we'd moved on yet. The colours today were amazingly vivid in the almost emerald green water.
WATER TEMP: 22C
VISIBILITY: 20m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m

Notodoris citrina nudibranch