Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Saturday 8 May 2010

Yesterday's dives were so amazingly amazing we just had to take advantage of the last day of lowish swell, no wind and neap tide by visiting Fish Hole again. The sheer number of fish on this site is outstanding - huge schools of big trevally, separate schools of barracuda - split up by size, schools of fusiliers so thick you can't see anything but flashing blue & yellow, masses of five-lined sea perch, sweetlips and roving batfish. Plus turtles, sharks, enormous moray eels. A huge black bull ray swam with us right back to the ascent line.
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 10-15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild to moderate
DEPTH: 14m

Even though the swell was rising a little bit, we decided to try a site we get to dive even less often than Fish Hole. Bedrock is a series of ledges, bommies and swim-thrus that is always teeming with fish, turtles, sharks and rays. The dive was brilliant - so much action! We got surrounded and buzzed by three different schools of fish: big batfish, huge darts and fat barracuda. Glassfish filled caves and swim thrus. More semi-circular angelfish than we could count, from the very small to the very large, sometimes in groups of four or five. Two teensy Hypselodoris maculosa nudibranchs snooped on the side of a ridge, one sticking his head down a hole and waving his little circle of gills at us. Can't wait to go back!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild to moderate
DEPTH: 12m