Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 30 December 2009

More choppy conditions today as we headed out to the Muiron Islands for the last time in 2009. We started at Cod Spot and despite relatively low visibility, we had a great dive with tons of medium sized cod using the murky water to stealthily stalk they prey. There were glorious patches of streaming sunshine sporadically throughout our dive and the rainbow colours of soft corals, sea fans, sponges & leather corals burst out at us. Small white tip reef sharks cruised just on the edge of vision and schools of surgeonfish were tucked under every ledge. It was a great day for small stuff - nudibranchs were abundant and there were lots of bright pink egg spirals swaying in the very gentle surge.
WATER TEMP: 22C
VISIBILITY: 4-6m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 16m

The wind picked up and the seas got rougher by the time were back on the boat so we ducked around to the east side of the island to find some calmer water. Turns out the wind was coming from that direction, too! We tucked in at East Side Bommies for dive two and a relaxing lunch. East Side Bommiees is always action packed and today we had trevally, reef sharks, blue spotted sting rays, big schools of convict surgeons, enormous parrotfish, scorpionfish, a big moray hiding under a ledge and 100s of different coloured Christmas Tree worms. This is a terrific site as it's made up of 1000s of small coral bommies and each one has something a little different living around it.
WATER TEMP: 22C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 8m