Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 11 April 2010

A lovely Sunday for visiting the Muiron Islands at the northern end of the Ningaloo Reef! We started at Cod Spot and had to push our way through all of the fish! A small black tip reef shark buzzed about while several fat wobbegongs snoozed on their ledges, screens of baitfish blocking them from view. An enormous bull ray was being attended to by various small fish as he laid on the sand, calmly watching all the divers go by. Lots of colourful fish, nudibranchs and electric blue spotted rays, too.
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 16m

Keyhole also was teeming with masses of fish including a big school of good-sized barracuda. A very cool green turtle watched us from his perch, swam casually to the surface for a breath, dived back down, swam around the divers for a bit of a sticky-beak and settled back on his ledge again. The swim-thrus are packed with small glittery fish and many rockcods hug the walls inside. It was a gorgeous dive.
WATER TEMP: 23C
VISIBILITY: 5-7m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 11m

We ended our day with a big snorkel at East Side Bommies. Cephalopods were well represented with quite a few octopus wandering around and even a couple of cuttlefish! The water was super blue and all of the colours of the corals, sea fans and sponges were super saturated. Millions of small damsels, anthias, sergeant-majors, parrotfish, butterflyfish and angelfish (some not so small!) kept us company.