Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Thursday 6 April 2010

Labyrinth was gorgeous - clear, blue, warm, active. Big batfish were at the cleaning stations, schools of batfish hung out in midwater. Turtles were everywhere, mostly sleeping. One was getting cleaned by a group of surgeonfish - he'd swim a bit, settle on the reef, get cleaned, swim in a circle, settle on all four fins and rock gently as the cleaners did their work. We stayed with him for about ten minutes and he was still enjoying the attention when we left him. A beautiful leopard shark was stretched out in the sand at the back of the site. Many angelfish, butterflyfish, nudibranchs, parrotfish, moorish idols flashed their fancy colours.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Blizzard Ridge was teeming with coral trout, rankin cod, estuary cod, sharp nose snapper and other predators coming in to munch up on the remaining baitballs. Olive sea snakes, white tip reef sharks, blue spotted rays, squirrelfish, a big loggerhead turtle and a friendly stars & stripes puffer. The spearing mantis shrimp is still in the same hole he's been in for months and he's really getting big now. This dive site is always great and everyone was buzzing when we got back on the boat.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: slight
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m