Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay 8 November 2009

Wow, yes, we are very far behind with our diving reports and other fun things on this blog.  We have been having some connection and email problems that needed to be sorted out and it's meant that the blog has suffered.  We hope that everything is fixed and running smoothly now, so enjoy this trip out to Lighthouse Bay from a little earlier in November.

We started at Blizzard Ridge and dropped into 20m visibility and fantastic fish action. There were olive sea snakes everywhere we looked including some very fat ones chasing each other along the top of the ledge. The nudibranchs are out in force in every colour of the rainbow. Our resident schools of threadfin pearl & 5 lined perch have grown and today they were grouped up altogether. Octopus were also abundant and quite a few were perched sitting up straight, keeping a good eye on the divers as we went past. The enormous moray eel had his entourage of cleaners darting to and fro as he swayed in the gentle current. We missed two huge humpback whales swimming right over the dive site by two minutes - but it was pretty cool to see them from the surface anyway. Just awsesome!
WATER TEMP: 23C
VISIBILITY: 20m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m

Labyrinth was turtle crazy today: loggerheads, green and hawksbill turtles all made a showing and there seemed to be at least one turtle under every ledge we came across. White tip reef sharks cruised and snoozed while blue spotted stingrays blew up huge plumes of sand as they dug for tasty morsels, bluebone and small wrasse darting in to steal whatever they could. Again, nudibranchs were diverse and abundant. Big batfish enjoyed the cleaning stations and wafted side to side low on the sand. It was a stunner of a dive!
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 20m and super clear blue
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m