We had some multi-day divers with us and their great desire was turtles so we headed to Labyrinth for our first dive. We found our first turtle about 2 minutes in and kept running across more and more scattered everywhere along the site. At the very end of the dive we even had one swim with us for a while! The nudibranchs have been busy laying eggs and we found a few bright pink egg spirals perched at the top of ledges & fluttering in the mild surge. Schools of snapper, sea perch and trevally hung out over the sand while small white tip reef sharks hid behind them. It was a great dive even though it was pretty dirty.
WATER TEMP: 22C
VISIBILITY: 4-6m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m
Blizzard Ridge is covered in more weed than we've ever seen there before. Lots of cool baby fish and funky nudibranchs are hiding in there for those who have the patience to really look. Most of the big schools of fish that are normally around were a little scattered today instead of grouped up, but all the individuals were there. A big white tip reef shark cruised past our group nice and slowly as we were checking out a well camouflaged wobbegong shark hiding his head under a rocky outcrop. Olive sea snakes were abundant but most of them were tucked under and sleeping; one guy did check out each member of our group, poking his tongue out at each of us in turn. The highlight of our dive was coming across a big leopard shark resting in the sand. A few little fishes were busily giving his gills a scrub and we were able to lay quietly next to him for ages before we had to head back to the boat. Fantastic stuff to see!
WATER TEMP: 22C
VISIBILITY: 4-6m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 13m
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