Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 7 April 2010

The Muiron Islands were gorgeous today! We did Cod Spot first up and there were big cod - rankin, potato, estuary - everywhere we looked. Moray eels were also abundant, some of them way out of their holes and others tucked up tight with just the tips of their noses out. Lots of schools of fish today, too: snapper, sea perch, trevally, drummers, convict surgeons. Really great dive!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 8-12m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 118m

Whalebone had a little more surge but the number of colourfish fish - angelfish, bannerfish, moorish idols, goatfish, damsels, anthias, butterflyfish - more than made up for it! A couple of green turtles hung out with us for part of the dive and white tip reef sharks watched us as they had a little rest on the sand. A group of seven extremely fat sweetlips hovered under a ledge and barely bothered to make room for us as we swam past them. As usual, the colours on this site were outstanding and some of the soft corals had their polyps out to feed.
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild to moderate
DEPTH: 12m