Exmouth Diving Centre Whale Shark report - Monday 26 April 2010

The day started off a little windy and choppy but it cleared up and settled down by mid-morning, turning into a stellar day for our Whale Shark Adventure here in Exmouth. As usual we started our day with a dive and snorkel at Central Station. Most of the schooling fish were just hanging around being a little boring, if still pretty, but so much else was happening! A nice 2m blacktip reef shark cruised past, big painted crays teased us with their antennae wiggly from holes, three different types of moray eels swayed in the slight current and a whole variety of brightly coloured nudibranchs dotted the reef. Best sighting (though it was toss up with the blacktip reef shark!) was a school of about ten moblos - pygmy manta rays!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 8m
CURRENT: slight
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 15m

The whale sharks must have realised they had a lot to live up today. We had multiple long swims with three different whale sharks: 3.5m, 5m and 6m males. Two of them were right up on the back of the reef in shallow water so as we swam with them we could also see all of the reef structures, turtles, rays, trevally, barracuda and other miscellaneous marine life that seemed to be completely oblivious to the huge shadow crossing over. A dream day out - again!