Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Thursday 14 January 2010

It felt great to head back around into Lighthouse Bay after so long! Blizzard Ridge was first up and the schooling perch & snapper were solid walls through the whole centre section of the site. Olive sea snakes were checking out little holes for something to eat and moray eels of various sizes were well out of their own holes, many with tiny transparent cleaner shrimps attending to them. There was lots of colour today: pink anthias, neon blue damsels, red cardinalfish, green parrotfish, yellow buterflyfish, purple goatfish and a whole rainbow of nudibranchs. Woohoo! We love diving!
WATER TEMP: 23C
VISIBILITY: 12-15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m

Gulliver's also had huge schools of snapper and sea perch today. Five white tip reef sharks lazed on the sand while cleaner wrasse darted all over them. Pink anemonefish were feeling brave and dancing around several feet away from their tentacled homes. A dozen big barracuda came in for a fly-by of the divers, disappeared into the blue and then about ten minutes later came in for another one from a different direction - it was pretty cool!
WATER TEMP: 23C
VISIBILITY: 12-15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 13m