Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Thursday 21 January 2010

The breeze is back but it didn't stop us heading out to Lighthouse Bay for a couple of active morning dives today! Blizzard Ridge was active and all of our usual suspects were there. The fusiliers must have been a whole lot dirtier than normal as there were masses of them lined up and waiting patiently for their turn at cleaning stations along the entire site. Our spearing mantis is growing again and he was sitting up tall in the mouth of his hole. Moray eels, firefish, olive sea snakes, white tip reef sharks, schools of threadfin pearl perch, bannerfish, scorpionfish, nudibranchs, shrimps - you name, today we had it. We even had a pod of dolphins!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 5-8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: slight
DEPTH: 14m

White tip reef sharks were very active on Gulliver's today. Few were simply resting on the bottom like they often do; they were zooming around the site for our whole dive. Rankin cod and many spotted sweetlips were dominating the cleaning stations, the cleaner wrasse delving deep into the bright pink flared gills. A great school of bullseyes obscured the opening to one of the deep cutbacks on the southern end and when we parted the curtain they had created we found a group of fat sweetlip just hanging out, doing not much of anything.
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 5-8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: slight
DEPTH: 13m