Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Friday 31 December 2010

Two awesome dives to end 2010! We started at Blizzard Ridge and were escorted down the line by a pair of inquisitive batfish, their yellow fins glowing bright. At the bottom, a plump roughback ray kept one eye on us as cleaner wrasse gave him a scrub & he blew sand into a big cloud. An olive sea snake coiled in and out of the group, checking out fin tips carefully before meandering off. Not bad for the first three minutes of our dive! We also had a giant moray eel waving his head side to side as small clear shrimp picked bits off him, octopus snaking their arms around themselves, trios of bannerfish hovering just inches from our masks, semi-circular angelfish scrounging for tasty treats and wobbegong sharks sleeping under ledges. Fish, fish and more fish today!
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: very mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Labyrinth had a lot more food and floaties in the water which reduced visibility but certainly didn't deter mobs of fish putting in an appearance! Lots of green turtles, a huge painted crayfish, batfish, trevally, barracuda, pink anemonefish, parrotfish, butterflyfish, cardinalfish, lionfish, blue spotted stingrays, cleaning stations, wobbegong sharks, white tip reef sharks, five lined sea perch, sharpnose snapper, stars & stripes pufferfish - a feast for the eyes every minute of the dive!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 5m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Thursday 30 December 2010

We love the Muiron Islands so much we had to head out again! We went to Whalebone first and it was fabulous again, but the visibility was quite a bit lower than yesterday. We still had more than enough to see: raccoon butterflyfish, honeycomb cod, reindeer wrasse, many spotted sweetlips, unicornfish, green turtles, moray eels, nudibranchs, batfish, black tipped rock cod, big estuary cod, Nor'West snapper...
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 4-5m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: strong
DEPTH: 12m

As the swell was creating quite a lot of surge & the wind was giving us a bit of surface chop after the dive, we tucked around to East Side Bommies for dive two. It was a great choice as the water was much clearer than yesterday and the marine life was rocking! Sharks, rays, turtles, schools of convict surgeonfish, firefish, grouper, coral trout, Christmas tree worms, nudibranchs, barracuda, porcupinefish, pink anemonefish - so many fishes!
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 10m

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 29 December 2010

Whalebone was hopping with lots of emperor angelfish including quite a few juveniles, big trevally buzzing the divers, white tip reef sharks circling on the sand, damsels & anthias in every hue and moorish idols zipping here and there. The swim throughs had just enough baitfish to add sparkle and big rankin cod patrolled the exits. We had a lovely dive!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 8m
CURRENT: mild-moderate
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

The wind was forecast to come in pretty strong, so we trekked to the more sheltered east side of the Islands for dive two at North East Bommies. It was a little dirtier here, but the fish life was great. Lionfish, sailfin catfish, butterflyfish, wrasses, pufferfish, sea pike, moray eels, snapper and so much more!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 4-5m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 8m

Happily, the wind didn't come in as expected so we had a lovely cruise back down Exmouth Gulf in the afternoon and were greeted by a small pod of dolphins at the mouth of the marina - perfect end to the day!

NEWS: Roads are due to be open today!

THE ROAD SHOULD OPEN THIS MORNING - Main Roads have said they expect to open the North West Coastal Highway to all traffic during daylight hours from 9am this morning. Go to mainroads.wa.gov.au or ph 138138 for confirmation after 9am.

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Monday 27 December 2010

Oh so clear and blue underwater today! The sea breeze came in super early so we had a little chop on the surface, but underwater was divine.

We started at Labyrinth and before we even hit the water we'd seen more than ten turtles and the turtle action continued underwater - they were everywhere! The super blue water really made the purples, oranges, yellows, reds and greens of the massive number of fish stand out. Big trevally and mackerel were cruising and coral trout were hunting. Pink anemonefish were enjoying easy meals and swimming quite a ways away from the safety of their anemones. A good sized wobbegong shark snoozed under a ledge at our entry/exit point - completely disinterested in anything around him. Today was one of those dive days you dream about!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 20+m
CURRENT: mild-moderate
SURGE: very mild
DEPTH: 14m

We dropped in at Razor's next and it was also excellent with big schools of scad, fusiliers and snapper rolling back and forth at the top of the ridge. A giant leopard spotted stingray whose wingspan was easily 1.8m tried to ignore us, half buried in sand, while cleaner wrasse went to work on his head. He got fed up with them and took off in a massive cloud of sand, leaving a trail behind him for miles! Moray eels, pufferfish, nudibranchs, baitfish, juvenile sailfin catfish and moorish idols tried to steal our attention from the gorgeous coloured sea fans. Our best find of the day: a teensy white anglerfish!! He posed prettily for each of our divers so everyone got a very good look. His little tiny feet were so cute and he even did a couple of yawns for us - amazing!!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 20+m
CURRENT: mild-moderate
SURGE: very mild
DEPTH: 13m

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 26 December 2010

Happy Boxing Day! It was a HOT day here in Exmouth and on the boat at the Muiron Islands was the place to be to keep cool.

Whalebone had lots of parrotfish action today. Big ones, little ones, purple, orange, blue and yellow ones! They were munching the corals, darting after each in games of chasey and were just everywhere we looked. The swim throughs had quite a few baitfish in them and lots of blacktipped rockcods along the walls. Many spotted sweetlips hung under ledges and trios of batfish swam above our heads. Our cute reindeer wrasse was busy wafting here, there and everywhere over the sand. It was a very active dive site today!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild-moderate
DEPTH: 12m

Keyhole was also pretty active and we saw tons of nudibranchs, small moray eels, three kinds of shrimps and many tiny hermit crabs. Big schools of fusiliers sparkled in mid-water and four big mackerel patrolled the perimeter, occasionally darting in towards us for a better look. White tip reef sharks, giant trevally, neon damsels, longfin bannerfish, coral trout, rankin cod - the variety of fish was excellent!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild - moderate
DEPTH: 12m

Congratulations to our newest PADI divers!

It's a very Merry Christmas for our last PADI Open Water students of 2010 as they finished their course this beautiful Christmas Eve day with two awesome dives in Lighthouse Bay!

Some of these new divers are heading out with us on Boxing Day to the Muiron Islands and we look forward to taking them out for their first dives as certified divers!

Congratulations and we hope you all spend lots of time underwater in 2011 (and return to check out the whale sharks)!

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Thursday 23 December 2010

The conditions are just getting better and we started at Blizzard Ridge for our first dive in Lighthouse Bay since the big rains. There were quite a few floaties in the water that kept visibility a little low but the fish were loving the extra food, darting & dashing in and out constantly. Wobbegong sharks, white tip reef sharks, estuary cod, threadfin pearl perch, rankin cod, lots of nudibranchs, bright yellow trumpetfish and lots of groups of baby sailfin catfish.
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: -86m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 12m

We headed over to Gulliver's for dive two and the cleaning stations were super busy with huge cod waiting patiently behind smaller snapper. We found a huge giant moray (is that redundant? LOL) and many smaller eels dotting the landscape. Batfish drifted sideways along the sand and a trio of them hung out with us on the safety stop. It was a dive filled with fish, fish and more fish!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 22 December 2010

After a week of wild, windy, rainy weather we were finally able to head out diving again and since it was a Wednesday, that meant the Muiron Islands! The water was very muddy all the way out but we were confident that there would be some nicer water once we got there - and we were right!

Whalebone's water was slightly more green than blue, but the visibility wasn't terrible and the fish life was fantastic. It's always fun to see Reindeer Wrasse in the week before Christmas! We also had: starry toadfish, emperor angelfish, juvenile emperor angelfish, barramundi cod, barracuda, white tip reef sharks, green turtles, trevally, parrotfish, schools of surgeonfish and sparkly baitfish in the swim-thrus.

And our snorkellers saw a dugong!!

WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 12m

During our surface interval it looked like the water was clearing up close to the Island, so we did Keyhole next and were rewarded with even better visibility and tons of excellent fish and nudibranchs. Lots of snapper, trevally, barracuda, sea pike and small rankin cod hung out in mid-water. Teeny juvenile yellow boxfish danced in and out of small holes in the reef and a variety of happy bright butterflyfish flitted everywhere we looked.
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 12m

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Conditions:
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- no other discounts or specials apply
- each diver must be certified Open Water or higher and have dived within 12 months of the date of your booked dive
- you can take your tour anytime from 25 March - 7 July, 2011; subject to availability
- gift certificates & open dated vouchers must be presented at check-in and we recommend that you prebook your preferred date before you arrive in Exmouth
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- valid for new bookings only

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 12 December 2010

Fantastic day!

We started at Cod Spot and had probably the best visibility we've ever seen there. Now, we don't normally care too much about viz as the reef is so active it doesn't matter much how far you can see coz there's so much to see right in front of you but today, WOW! The colours in the soft corals were jaw-droppingly vivid and you could see the bright colours for miles underwater - it was truly remarkable. Of course, there were also tons of fish around: trevally, mackerel, pink anemonefish, green parrotfish, moorish idols, emperor angelfish, 6 banded angelfish, many spotted sweetlips, white tip reef sharks... Best sight today: 3 grey reef sharks! They came in pretty close and didn't seem inclined to dart away from the area like they usually do. We spent ages just watching them circle and cruise. Fantastic, for sure!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 25+m
CURRENT: very slight
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 17m

We headed to Keyhole to see if we could find the juvenile grey nurse shark that we found last Sunday, but couldn't find her anywhere. There were tons of different species of nudibranchs out and about including four different species on one small (about the size of an esky) coral bommie! So pretty! The swim-thrus had masses of red soldierfish adorning the ceilings and walls. Two big razorfish did their funky dance over the sand for us and three big barracuda patrolled over our heads for almost the entire dive. This was an outstanding dive!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: very mild
DEPTH: 12m

The water around at Turtle Bay, where we stopped for lunch and a big snorkel, was rich blue & green - and so clear you didn't even need to get off the boat to see the fish! There were masses of turtle tracks on the beach - looks like the Mama Turtles were super busy last night digging nests and laying eggs.

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Saturday 4 December 2010

Blizzard Ridge was top to bottom fish today - we didn't even start going down the mooring line before we were surrounded by a big school of fusiliers with some big Nor-West Snapper zipping in to say hello! The ridges were hectic with pipefish, banded cleaner shrimp, nudibranchs galore, hermit crabs and tiny moray eels. Quite a few blue spotted stingrays were making a bit of a mess foraging for snacks and patient snapper hung out waiting for scraps. Lionfish snuggled on the reef and floated all fanned out just above the sand. A very nice dive for a Saturday!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Labyrinth was Wobbie City today. They were everywhere - sleeping under ledges, sleeping out in the open, sleeping draped over bommies, swimming circles round and round! Green turtles, white tip reef sharks, coral trout, moorish idols, many spotted sweetlips - so much to see!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 13m

SPECIAL: Treat yourself to reef diving!

Welcome to our first special of the 2010 holiday season!

Today's special:
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How to book:
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Want to buy one for a Christmas pressie or stocking stuffer? We can provide a gift certificate for you.

Not sure of your dates? You can still take advantage of this special by purchasing an open dated voucher. You must take your tour between 20 December 2010 and 30 June 2011.

Beat the rush and grab this great deal today!

Conditions:
- your payment must be received before 3pm 4 December 2010, Western Australia time
- no other discounts or specials apply
- each diver must be certified Open Water or higher and have dived within 12 months of the date of your booked dive
- you can take your tour anytime from 20 December 2010 - 30 June, 2011; subject to availability
- gift certificates & open dated vouchers must be presented at check-in and we recommend that you prebook your preferred date before you arrive in Exmouth
- you must include the code in your email; no code, no pressie!
- valid for new bookings only

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 28 November, 2010

An unusual day for us here in Exmouth - we had overcast skies almost all day! A few drops of rain and a bit of humidity, too. But overall it was lovely with fairly calm seas and lots of marine life. It also didn't get nearly as hot as it could have!

We started at Keyhole and were treated to tons of fish over the whole site from the moment we put our heads under. Painted sweetlips, emperor angelfish, white tip reef sharks, blue spotted stingrays, surgeonfish, lots of big parrotfish, moorish idols, barracuda...great dive!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 10m & a little cloudy
CURRENT: none
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 11m

The west side of the Island was getting a little choppy, so we cruised to the other side for nicer surface conditions. North East Bommies was awesome again today! Huge painted crays, cleaner shrimps everywhere, cute porcupinefish, a big green turtle, more white tip reef sharks, several different nudibranchs, moray eels, anemonefish, lots of butterflyfish and more!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 12m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 11m

We enjoyed lunch and a big snorkel at East Side Bommies. Lionfish, trevally, sea pike, turtles, rays, damsels, convict surgeons, blue-green chromis, Christmas tree worms, sailfin catfish - tons to see!

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 21 November 2010

What a gorgeous Sunday to be out at the Muiron Islands! Keyhole was first up for us and the water was so blue and the sun beams were streaming down on the brightly coloured soft corals like spotlights - it was magical! Plenty of sea creatures cruising around, too: many spotted sweetlips, white tip reef sharks, barracuda, emperor angelfish, yellow trumpetfish, green turtles, sailfin catfish, ornate surgeonfish, batfish and tons of sparkly damsels. Best find today was a ginormous potato cod that adopted us - he would float right in front of us and just stare into our masks. Very cool!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

North East Bommies was up for dive two and again the fish & marine life was great. Bannerfish, sea pike, lionfish, snapper, white tip reef sharks, moray eels, monocle bream, rankin cod, coral cod, squirrelfish, nudibranchs, blue spotted rays, slingjaw wrasse - the list is almost endless!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 11m

We had lunch and a big snorkel around East Side Bommies. Schools of convict surgeons, lots of big parrotfish, more turtles, lionfish, lots of little groups of balling catfish, sergeant majors guarding their nests - it was a perfect afternoon!

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Saturday 20 November 2010

Blizzard Ridge, Baby! Our new friend Mr Anglerfish was on the same bit of coral, but head down, bum up and all tucked in so not very cooperative at the beginning of the dive. Patience & perseverance paid off as throughout the dive he'd move his little (big!) feet a few millimeters at a time - so fun to watch them walk! - and eventually ended up kinda on top of the coral - at least enough so we could see his cutie face!

A phenomenal number of fish in the schools today - they'd swarm over us and it would go from sunny bright to almost black as they blocked out the sun: sea pike, five lined sea perch and scads. There now seem to be three big groups of threadfin pearl perch. Numerous rankin cod, giant estuary cod (several getting cleaned, gigantic mouths open while cleaner wrasse darted in and out of their gills) and aggressive trevally shooting through the schools. Coral trout were patrolling and taking a time out at the cleaning stations, too.

An enormous remora was getting cleaned while resting in the sand on top of the ledge and a black bull ray hung out right at the end of the site. White tip reef sharks were being lazy and lionfish were soaking up rays in midwater. A nice hawksbill turtle came in for a peek at the bubble-blowers but didn't hang around too long.

Best sight today? A mating pair of blue spotted stingrays tumbling round and round each other right through mid-water and before our eyes! Incredible!

We had dolphins and whales on the trip back to the boat ramp and it was a great way to end the day!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 15-20m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: very mild
DEPTH: 14m

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Thursday 18 November 2010

Lighthouse Bay rocked!! We started at Blizzard Ridge and had all of the usual critters: school of threadfin pearl perch, olive sea snakes, honeycomb cod, fusiliers getting cleaned by attentive cleaner wrasse, moray eels, banded pipefish, estuary cod, lionfish, white tip reef sharks, wobbies, longfin bannerfish... And the ANGLERFISH is back!! Yippeee!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Labyrinth was also packed with fish: estuary cod, coral trout (hunting!), many spotted sweetlips, pink anemonefish, sailfin catfish, monocle bream, batfish big & small, white tip reef sharks, barracuda, trevally, many different angelfish, big school of convict surgeons...and green turtles sleeping and swimming. Our best find today? A Ward's Wobbegong shark. Don't see these guys very often!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

We also had humpback whales and dolphins on our trip out and back. Great day!

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Tuesday 16 November 2010

We had such a great trip on Sunday that we decided to head out a day earlier than usual again! We started at Keyhole and had just tons of fish life. Trevally, barracuda, drummers, surgeonfish, parrotfish and rankin cods. White tip reef sharks, turtles, moray eels, cleaner shrimp and hermit crabs. We always love this site, but today it seemed to be extra active!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Whalebone had a lot to live up to and we weren't disappointed. There were some great curtains of baitfish, tons of bright pink & purple anthias, more butterflyfish and angelfish than we could keep track of and our dear little reindeer wrasse was flitting happily along the sand. Another couple of green turtles and a white tip reef shark circling then crash landing on the sand for a bit of a snooze. Some rankin cods that were even bigger than those on dive one and bright orange coral cods lined the ledges in the swim thrus.
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

We popped around to East Side Bommies for some more snorkeling and the water was super blue! It really made the colours of the corals, sponges and fish jump out. Absolutely stacks to see here today: barramundi cod, lionfish, blue spotted sting rays, sea pike, neon damsels, trumpetfish...

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 14 November 2010

A breezy day today for our Muiron Islands trip! Dive one was at Cod Spot and it was fish, fish, fish! It looked like the rankin cods were having a big party as they were everywhere we looked. Gorgeous tiera (tall fin) batfish flitted here and there. The sandy parts of the site were covered in gobies standing guard while bulldozer shrimp worked tirelessly to clean their homes - down the hole, pop back out, spit out the debris, pause, back down the hole,repeat! So fun to watch. Lots of splashes of colour from the wrasse, parrotfish, butterflyfish, damsels and angelfish.
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild - moderate
DEPTH: 16m

Whalebone was up next and despite slightly lower than usual visibility, it was still a delight. It's such a colourful and interesting site with its swim-thrus and soft coral gardens! And tons of fish, of course. White tip reef sharks, a juvenile reindeer wrasse, huge orange and green parrotfish, a big school of sea pike, green turtles, brilliant blue neon damsels, bannerfish, moorish idols and fat scorpionfish. We love it!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild+
DEPTH: 12m

We headed to East Side Bommies for our snorkeling. Turtles, blue spotted stingrays, a school of big southern drummers, estuary cod, lionfish, sailfin catfish, anemonefish, Christmas Tree Worms and so much more - beautiful way to relax in the afternoon!

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Friday 12 November 2010

Lighthouse Bay was a little choppy on the surface today but jam-packed with fish action underneath. We started at Blizzard Ridge and there were so many individual fish in the schools that it was almost hard to see your buddy as we swam through them! Five lined sea perch, threadfin pearl perch, trevally, fusiliers, nor'west snappers, rankin cod, sea pike, estuary cod, longfin bannerfish, lionfish, wobbegong sharks, batfish, flutemouths, pipefish - all shapes, colours and sizes today! We also had a green turtle swim with us for a few minutes and the whole time it looked like he was laughing at us before he effortlessly headed for the surface. Fun dive!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 810m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

Gulliver's had lots of fish but they weren't swimming too fast! It was great as everything just hung out and watched us and we were able to get very close to all manner of fish. A couple of very large green tusk fish were lolling on the sand while cleaner wrasse picked them clean. The resident school of five lined sea perch seems to have grown - it stretched from the sand almost all the way to the surface today. There was lots of cleaner action and tons of little shrimp were out and about trying to bring in customers. The tiger cardinalfish are carrying eggs in their mouths again, which is always cool to see. More green turtles and white tip reef sharks here - the sharks were super lazy, barely moving a meter before settling again. Another super dive for really getting close to critters!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 10 November 2010

It was a little windy first thing this morning but as we headed out the wind calmed and we ended up with a lovely day! Whalebone started us off with masses of baitfish around the reef and in the swim-thrus. A 3m black stingray was camped out on the bottom of one of the swim-thrus, his wingtips almost touching the walls on either side. Potato cod were hanging near the exits, just keeping an eye on things. Mating octopus, four kinds of angelfishes, cute morays, colourful nudibranchs - including a mating pair of neon marked Nembrotha purpureolineatas - and tons of reef fish really put on a show. We also had a grey reef shark cruise by a few times!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

We headed around to the east side of the Muiron Islands to snorkel at Turtle Bay - and it really lived up to it's name with over 20 turtles all in a tiny area, all trying to find a special friend to mate with! It was awesome!

Keyhole was action packed with cobia, trevally, barracuda, turtles, schooling surgeonfish, roughback stingrays, white tip reef sharks and all colours of parrotfish zipping this way and that. We have a new juvenile reindeer wrasse pretending to be a bit of drunken weed weaving all over a little patch near a rocky outcrop - he's mesmerizing to watch! Big batfish were getting cleaned near the bottom and smaller batfish followed us all the way up the mooring line at the end of our dive.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Monday 8 November 2010

Now this is the way to start the week! We headed for Blizzard Ridge for dive one as we wanted to try to find the new anglerfish that we'd seen on Saturday, but, alas, he was no where to be found. We were very sad. But the crazy amount of fish, sharks, sea snakes, eels, and nudibranchs helped us get happy again! We even had a grey reef shark checking us out. Two different lionfish were showing off their fins in mid-water: there's something stunning about a red and white firefish with all of its bits spread out against a blue background! We had two mating octopus today, too. The female was BIG and she was making the male work pretty hard - dragging him all over the reef, swimming away, tucking into small holes, sitting up high on the reef edge and all the while both of them are showing off a breath-taking array of colours, patterns and textures. Best mating display ever!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

We had a hunch about Gulliver's so made it our second dive site. The place was hopping with a huge school of five lined sea perch, smaller groups of snapper, a big rolling school of convict surgeons and a dizzying school of southern drummers buzzing & circling us several times during the dive. One of the small magnificent anemones was rolled up into a purple vase and its resident pink anemonefish were weaving in and out of the mohawked tentacles. And we had two manta rays! One of them took over the cleaning station for about half an hour - back and forth, coming right over the divers' heads, circling around, getting a wing massage from our bubbles. AMAZING!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 7 November 2010

We started our day at Cod Hole today and it really lived up to its name with tons of rankin and estuary cod all over the site. The dive started with a big shovelnosed ray lazily swimming past right at the bottom of the mooring! The fish life was excellent: lionfish, coral trout, six banded angelfish, all sorts of butterflyfishes, 100s of neon damsels & blue-green chromis, masses of red squirrelfish and lots of sea pike cruising around. Quite a few colourful nudibranchs and a few moray eels dotted the reef scape and a huge roughback stingray blew great plumes of sand up and over himself. Along the tops of the reef we had numerous green turtles. It was a gorgeous dive.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 12+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 18m

Keyhole was up next and the colours were outstanding. There were even more angelfish covering this site than we'd seen on dive one, no mean feat! Barramundi cod, batfish, blue spotted rays, sailfin catfish, small porcelain crabs, cleaner shrimp, more turtles and some white tip reef sharks gave us plenty to look at as we enjoyed the warm, blue water. We were having such a great dive that we had to hang out for a few extra minutes!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

The afternoon was perfect for a big snorkel at East Side Bommies. Turtles, sharks, rays, anemonefish, lionfish, emperor angelfish, octopus, nudibranchs, schools of trevally, coral trout, Christmas Tree Worms...this site is awesome every time we visit!

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Saturday 6 November 2010

FANTASTIC diving today! We started at Labyrinth and it was just truly amazing. Where to start? Manta ray? Check! Group of TEN white tip reef sharks hanging out together? Check! Turtles on every ledge and swimming alongside us? Check! Huge wobbegong shark smiling out from under his ledge? Check! Tiniest mantis shrimp ever? Check! Batfish, cleaning stations, coral trout, scorpionfish, nudibranchs of every hue, olive sea snakes, blue spotted rays... Check!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m

Blizzard Ridge had a lot to live up to after such an incredible first dive. Happily it seemed every fish for a mile was hanging out for our viewing pleasure: rankin cod, coral cod, black-tipped rockcod, octopus, banded pipefish, estuary cod, firefish, fusiliers being cleaned...and a Queensland Groper!! Better than all those things (in this author's humble opinion) a new anglerfish (aka frogfish)! Woohoo - we adore our anglerfish!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

SPECIAL: Hire Cameras super summer savings!

Everyone loves to grab some snaps of their time in the water here on the Ningaloo Reef and over summer we're offering a great deal when you hire our cameras with underwater housings.

For a limited time, we are offering our camera systems for $50 instead of $80. That's a whopping 37% savings!

Hire cameras aren't just for our Whale Shark Adventures and Manta & Humpback Explorers.

Every tour we offer provides an enormous variety of fish and other marine life to keep you snapping away!


It doesn't matter if you are diving or snorkeling or doing a bit of both, our cameras are ready to go to capture your memories so you can share everything you see with friends and family back home. We can put your images on a disk or on your own USB stick, whichever you prefer. You can even use your own CF card if you want.

Prebookings are essential so let us know that you want a camera for your tour when you make your booking and we'll reserve it for you.

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All photos in this post were taken with our hire cameras.

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Thursday 4 November 2010

Another stunner of a day and we headed to Lighthouse Bay for some diving on two of our favourite sites. Blizzard Ridge was jam packed with fish from the sand all the way to the surface. Our pair of banded pipefish are getting big and are sharing their hidey hole with three varieties of shrimps, coral cod and a juvenile olive sea snake who had stopped by for a little nap. Big, chunky estuary cod were cruising the top of the ledge and a good-sized roughback stingray kept an eye on us from the sand at the bottom of the ledge. Our resident school of threadfin pearl perch had some new members today - two small Nor'West Snapper and a stars & stripes pufferfish were floating along with them. So much to see!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m

Gulliver's had even more action today than Blizzard did! Masses of bullseyes, glassfish and convict surgeons. Coral trout everywhere. Octopus out and about. Sailfin catfish snuffling the sand here, there and everywhere. A googly eyed porcupinefish snuggled under a ledge and kept doing circles while staying place - not sure if he was pretending we weren't there or just having a bit of a game! Turltes, white tip reef sharks, many spotted sweetlips and lots of action at the cleaning stations. Such fun!
Oh, and we forgot to mention the TWO enormous Queensland Gropers!!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 15+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 3 November 2010

What a perfect day for our first day back diving after our short break in October and after our long blogging break!

We couldn't have asked for bluer skies, nicer temperatures, more perfect light breezes or better diving that our tour to the Muiron Islands gave us. We started the day at Jaws and were surrounded by an incredible amount of marine life before we even got to the bottom! Green turtles, schools of trevally and barracuda, coral trout hunting & hanging under ledges, colourful nudibranchs, curious batfish and adorable tiny yellow boxfish were just some of vast variety on this site.
WATER TEMP: 25-26C
VISIBILITY: 15+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

Whalebone was next up and it had all of the usual suspects set against a backdrop of gorgeous blue water and stunning soft corals in red, yellow, orange, pink & purple. This is such a beautiful site it wouldn't even matter if there were any fish! Happily, there were plenty: barramundi cod, scorpionfish, white tip reef sharks, flowery cod, rankin cod, sailfin catfish and roughback stingrays. The octopus were out and about enjoying the beams of sunlight, too.
WATER TEMP: 25-26C
VISIBILITY: 15+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

We stopped to snorkel around at Turtle Beach and there were plenty of turtles for everyone. Our gentle drift showed us anemonefish, bluw-spotted stingrays, small eels, multitudes of neon damsels & sergeant majors, cascading schools of convict surgeonfish, Nor'West Snapper, lazy estuary cod and more angelfish than we could count!

Not enough for you? We also had humpback whales to keep us entertained both on the trip out and on the way back. All in all a pretty perfect day!

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Exmouth Diving Centre Manta & Humpback Explorer - 3 August 2010

Completely gorgeous day out on the Ningaloo Reef today. The manta rays were wonderful with two friendly guys cruising around us right on the edge of the reef and then a third joined us.

This third one swam up into really shallow water and the sunlight gleaming off his back was mesmerizing. A little further down the reef we checked out the cleaning station and the mantas must have sent word out that we wanted them as every minute a new one would arrive and we ended with six mantas circling the station, cruising around us and just generally showing off how beautiful and graceful they are!

We even had the smallest manta of the season so far - he was only about 1m wingspan! Too cute.

The humpback whales were serenading us loudly the whole time we were snorkeling. Sometimes we could even feel it in our chests - it seemed like they were so close!

Once we were back on the boat watching the humpback whales we found a mother with her very young calf who was almost white. The calf was having a great time fin slapping, tail slapping and breaching over and over and over. It was incredible!

This is such a great tour - not only for the amazing wildlife, but the scenery of the Cape in the late afternoon sun is picture postcard perfect, too!

Exmouth Diving report - West Side full day Wednesday 28 July 2010

We headed out off the West Side of the Nor'west Cape today for a couple of dives and some reef cruising. Central Station was our first stop and it was a little dirty, but filled with fish, eels, turtles, manta rays, sting rays, reef sharks and even a cuttlefish!
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 5-7m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 17m

For the second dive we headed a little further south in search of some cleaner water and Nick's Lumps was perfect. We saw the smallest white tip reef shark ever - he was the same size as the remoras on the bigger white tips! Green turtles, egg cowries, tomato rockcod, barracuda, schools of trevally, schools of convict surgeons, blue spotted sting rays and tons of colourful reef fish all hung out for our viewing pleasure in the brilliant blue water.
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 20+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 17m

There were also lots of humpback whales everywhere we looked! Wonderful day!

Exmouth Diving Centre Whale Shark report - Friday 16 July, 2010

What an exciting day!!

We started off as usual with a gorgeous dive at Central Station. There were fish galore of every size and shape, turtles sleeping, turtles swimming along the reef, octopus showing off, eels peering out at us, nudibranchs adding dashed of colour and, of course, manta rays! We even had an enormous 3+m manta ray circling the divers and then cruising through the cleaning station before circling the divers again.
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 20+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 17m

The whale sharks were a ways away today so we had plenty of time to relax and enjoy the scenery and humpback whales as we headed south for our first swims. We again had multiple whale sharks and multiple drops. Our last drop of the day was incredible - we stayed in the water for over 40 minutes straight, the whale shark swimming at the perfect pace for everyone to be able to move around and see him from every vantage point. Yes, we were pretty tired after such a long swim but it was just incredible.

On the drive back towards the mooring we came across a rare sight - a dead humpback whale being devoured by over 15 big sharks including a whole bunch of huge tiger sharks! It was riveting to watch. We stayed on the boat, of course, sticking cameras off the edge of the marlin board now again. This is one of the coolest things we've ever seen!

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Monday 12 July, 2010

Beautiful morning to head to Lighthouse Bay for a couple of dives. We started at Labyrinth and were delighted to find more turtles than we could count, some roving white tip reef sharks, big batfish lining up on the cleaning stations and big many spotted sweetlips hanging out all over the site. There were lots of small schools of trevally and a couple of big groups of mid-sized barracuda, too.
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m

Blizzard Ridge had lots of action big and small today. Multiple olive sea snakes came up to give a look and wobbegong sharks slept under quite a few ledges. The cleaner shrimp were all busy with various cods plus some small damsels. We found a very cool ghost pipefish pretending to not be there and our stripey pair is still tucked back in their hole. Lionfish were everywhere - laying on the reef with their fins tucked in and floating just above the sand, slowly twisting this way and that in the small surge.
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

Exmouth Diving Centre Manta & Humpback Explorer - 3 July 2010

Our first Manta & Humpback Explorer of 2010 started us off with a perfect day! The seas were flat & warm, the sky sunny & blue, the temperature both in and out of the water just right. And the animals were awesome!

We started with some nice swims with a group of five huge manta rays. They didn't swim very far, but rather would swim a little ways and then bank gracefully and circle around us before swimming right in front of us again. We had excellent drops with them and really got to see how flexible and agile they are.

Once we were done with the manta rays we relaxed on the boat and watched several different humpback whales as they cruised up the coastline. One of them was very happy to show off his tail over and over again and another one seemed to pause every time it came to the surface so it could check us out with one eye!

The late afternoon clouds gave us a stunner of a sunset as we drove back to Exmouth from Tantabiddi. Pretty picture perfect end to a postcard kind of day!

Exmouth Diving report - West Side Thursday 1 July 2010

We've started July with a couple of dives on the West Side as Lighthouse Bay wasn't accessible due to wind and swell. Central Station gave us a special dive with not only the usual creatures like turtles, schools of threadfin pearl perch, stingrays and moray eels but also a huge potato cod. We spent quite a bit of time enjoying the show that seven big beautiful manta rays put on for us over one of the cleaning stations. It was completely enthralling to watch them circle, lightly rub each others' wings, swim oh-so-close to our noses and then glide up towards the surface to bask in the rays of sunlight streaming through the blue water.
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 15+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 16m

We couldn't dive our second site as there was a raging current, so we packed up and headed a little bit north to a new site instead. Lots and lots of fish: parrotfish, butterflyfish, angelfish, trevally, barracuda, convict surgeons, tangs and damsels. We also saw a couple of turtles swimming away, some octopus trying to look inconspicuous and a variety of colourful nudibranchs scattered over the very cool hard coral reef structures.
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: slight
DEPTH: 15m

Exmouth Diving Centre Whale Shark report - Monday 28 June 2010

We know we've said that we've had magical, perfect, breath-taking days out before, but today put more than just icing on the cake!

We started with a fabulous dive at Central Station with sharks, potato cod, big turtles, lots of fish and manta rays! We'd tell you more, but we need to get to the rest of the day:
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 12-15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 17m

Breaching humpback whales, humpback whales coming within meters of us while we were snorkeling with the whale sharks, humpback whales spy-hopping to check us out.

Orcas feeding and showing off.

More manta rays!

THREE WHALE SHARKS around us at ONE TIME!! It was mind-blowing! The three were circling the boat and us while we were snorkeling - it was hard to keep track of which whale shark we were originally watching! They were devouring a big school of bait that was so thick in places we could barely see the whale shark through it. One of these guys was a whooping 9m and simply too big to describe!

There were also other types of sharks patrolling below the baitball and manta rays were cruising around and around us and the whale sharks, too.

Needless to say, we lost count of how much time we spent with the whale sharks, how many individual whale sharks (there were more than just those three!) we saw and how many drops we had :)

Just completely WOW!

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 27 June 2010

A cool morning couldn't put a damper on such a fabulous day out to the Muiron Islands! We started at Cod Spot and it was teeming with fish. Three wobbegong sharks were hanging out on a single bommie while curtains of baitfish fluttered above them. Rankin cod, snapper, many spotted sweetlips, barracuda, parrotfish, surgeonfish and a couple of estuary cod led the numbers game in the mid to large fish category. Zillions of damsels and anthias brought tiny splashes of colour against the reef. We even had a swimming wobbegong shark!
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 12-15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 17m

Dive two took us to Whalebone and on top of all the beautiful bright coloured corals, sparkly reef fish and nudibranchs we had a big roughback ray, a whiptail ray and a shovelnose ray! Turtles and small reef sharks showed up, too. A school of BIG barracuda cruised around us. And a manta ray! Yipppee!
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 15-18m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

It was a stunning winter's day out Ningaloo Reef diving!

Exmouth Diving report - West Side full day Sunday 13 June 2010

Northerly winds and a lot of slop at the top of the Cape made our choice of destination for our full day tour easy - we headed off the West Side where conditions were much nicer!

We started at Three Fins and though it was a little choppy on the surface, underwater was gorgeous! Honeycomb cod relaxed on the coral while schools of surgeonfish rolled over the site, flashing their orange spots & razor sharp white scalpels. A 6+ foot white tip reef shark cruised inches off the sand in a big circular route around the reef. Neon blue damsels, hot pink anthias and green parrotfish spiced things up with spots of colour and a sleek school of silver barracuda hung out in mid-water. Very nice dive.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 19m

We headed back north a bit so we could dive Central Station and it was again covered in fish life, just like Friday. Turtles, white tip reef sharks, a small black tip reef shark, big school of stripey pufferfish, anemonefish, fat rankin cod and tons of stingrays making a mess in the sand searching for treats. Another great dive!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 15m

The humpbacks weren't as LOOK AT ME today like they were Friday with all their breaching, but there were quite a few pairs or trios cruising along the reef, blowing big sprays into the air as they continued their northerly migration. Very enjoyable day to be out and about.

Exmouth Diving Centre Whale Shark report - Friday 11 June 2010

We started at Central Station for an excellent dive and snorkel in clear blue water. From the time we dropped in to the time we got out we were surrounded by every kind & size fish you can imagine - the fish life was just thick on the whole site! We also had coral shrimp, octopus, cuttlefish (yay!), turtles, blue-spotted rays, big roughback rays and a wobbegong shark. Ningaloo Reef was going all out today for us!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 17m

The whale sharks weren't going to be outdone by such a great start to the day. We swam with four different whale sharks ranging from 4m - 6.5m and there were lots of other sharks popping up all around us. Again today we had multiple drops on every shark we swam with and every one of the four was nice and cruisy, right at the surface so we had lots of opportunity to relax and enjoy.

The humpback whales are also becoming more prolific and we saw small groups of them all through the day. On the way back to our mooring, we even had a couple breeching over and over and over - SO COOL!!

Chalk up another fabulous day whale sharking here on the Ningaloo Reef in Exmouth!

Exmouth Diving report - West Side full day Wednesday 9 June 2010

We love diving on the West Side! Today we started at Three Fins and it looked like all the reef creatures had been waiting for us to visit. We saw turtles, sting rays, white tip reef sharks, a small wobbegong tucked under a ledge, a solid curtain of mid-sized surgeonfish, big green and orange parrotfish, brilliant yellow trumpetfish and a single green trumpet hanging upside down. The ledges and nooks were filled with small shrimp, eels, a few nudibranchs and clear glassfish. Very pretty.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 19m

Central Station was also a fish-fest with good sized schools of trevally, threadfin pearl perch, stripey pufferfish, convict surgeons and a smaller school of short barracuda. Many spotted sweetlips and nor'west snapper were roaming around near the top of the reef. Several smallish green moray eels acted all shy when we passed but then stuck their noses out a bit more as curiosity got the better of them.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 15m

We saw a few humpback whales, some dolphins and a speedy manta ray as we cruised down the back of the reef. We also caught a glimpse of a minke whale as it came in very close the boat and then swam away. Nice variety of creatures here on the Ningaloo Reef today!

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Tuesday 8 June 2010

Blizzard Ridge started us off with feisty rankin cod circling each other and zooming through small schools of baitfish. White tip reef sharks were swimming slowly along the top of the ledge and several big roughback rays had snuggled right down in the sand on the lower edge. Colorful nudibranchs were everywhere including a couple of mating pairs. All of our usual schools - threadfin pearl perch, cardinalfish, snapper - were bunched up close together in the centre of the site and the anemonefish tucked in the hole were really active, swimming a good distance away from their host anemone. It seemed like every fish was on a mission today - lots of activity!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: slight
DEPTH: 13m

Gulliver's was awesomely beautiful blue today! We could see for miles underwater. Turtles, lots of white tip reef sharks, combined schools of sweetlips & snapper, butterflyfish and huge angelfish kept us eager to see more. The cleaning stations were super busy with rankin cod, estuary cod and many spotted sweetlips lined up and ready for the cleaner wrasse to dart in and go to work.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 25+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: slight
DEPTH: 12m

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Monday 7 June 2010

We love Labyrinth! There were so many turtles again today that we lost count! Most of them were just chillin' on the reef, but a few were swimming in lazily paths to the surface and back or scoping out new nooks to squeeze into for more naps. Big batfish were getting a good scrub at almost all the cleaning stations, while various cod and snapper hung out, waiting their turns. Coral trout were doing not much of anything but watching the world go by. Nudibranchs, shrimps, crabs and teeny eels played hide & seek with us as we peered into holes & into coral branches. We could have stayed here forever there was so much to see.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m


Blizzard Ridge was hopping, too. Fish, fish, fish and more fish. Big & little, silver, green, purple, orange, blue, yellow, stripy, polka dots, individuals, pairs and big schools. It was a feast for the eyes today. Olive sea snakes were out and about, sticking their heads in every hole they swam past and coming up close to our fins to see what we were doing.
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 10 m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Exmouth Diving Centre Whale Shark report - Tuesday 1 June 2010

Central Station was gorgeous today with a huge school of threadfin pearl perch, zillions of bright green, pink & purple parrotfish, blue-spotted stingrays, tiny moray eels, lionfish, turtles and two white tip reef sharks.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: moderate
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 16m

What a way to kick off June! We hit the water with our first whale shark of the day around 1pm and the whole afternoon was awesome. We swam with three different whale sharks and all of them were in clear water, very close to the surface and - our favourite - slow! Whale shark #3 was 8.5m and H-U-G-E!


We also saw dolphins, manta rays AND a minke whale who popped up right in front of the boat as we were cruising along the reef. Excellent day again!

It's not too late for you to head up to Exmouth for the mighty whale sharks in 2010. We expect great sightings all through June and well into July, so give us a ring on 08 9949 1201 or drop us an email to arrange your Ningaloo Reef visit now!

Congratulations John & Emma!

Two of our super instructors from seasons past have just gotten engaged! John popped the question to Emma in Venice, Italy, and she said YES!

How romantic is that?!

Congratulations to you both and we wish you a lifetime of happiness as husband & wife!

Here they are from way back in September 2007

Exmouth Diving Centre Whale Shark report - Friday 28 May 2010

Another gorgeous day here on the Ningaloo Reef. We started at Central Station for our dive and reef snorkel and it was a magical day! An enormous shark swam just on the edge of our vision, we waited to see if he'd come back, but it wasn't to be. Lots of fish, octopus, sting rays, nudibranchs and eels. Happiest of all were the MANTA RAYS! They are so awesome as they glide over us, pause to get a little cleaning action, cruise off into the distance and then swing around to do it all again.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: strong
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 16m

We were all abuzz after the awesome manta rays so the whale sharks had a lot to live up to and they did it effortlessly. We swam with three different whale sharks again today and they ranged in size from 4m - 7m. All of them were pretty cooperative: right on the surface, moving fairly slowly, allowing us to have multiple nice long swims. Beautiful whale sharks and a fabulous day!

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Exmouth Diving Centre Whale Shark report - Thursday 27 May 2010

A little windy and rough today again but surprisingly nice clean blue water on Central Station. It even rained for a very brief period! We had a lovely dive with more mantis shrimp out of their holes, octopus sitting out on top of small coral outcrops, big schools of trevally and barracuda, a couple of green turtles, blue spotted rays, two white tip reef sharks and 1000s of colourful reef fish.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: moderate
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 15m

The whale sharks were great today! We spent our time with two different whale sharks. Our first one was about 4m long and was cruising happily in a pretty straight line, the tip of his tail breaking the surface as he'd ride the swell up. He would dive deep for a few minutes, then glide back up to the surface to swim along with us for a while longer. Shark #2 was about 7m long and pretty chunky with it. He, too, was swimming really slowly just under the surface. He didn't do as much up and down as our first guy and we swam and swam and swam on multiple drops with him.