Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 26 May 2010

Another brilliant day of diving at the Muiron Islands. We stopped at Cod Spot first up and all of the usual suspects were waiting to greet us. The batfish population has exploded and there were groups of 3-10 everywhere we looked along with one big school bopping around in the blue under the boat. A very cool outlined juvenile batfish teased us for awhile. Trevally buzzed about in a huge school and pairs roamed close to the reef. White tip reef sharks lazed on the sand and crayfish poked their antennae out at us. Oh, almost forgot - MANTA RAY! Huge wings made his patrol look totally effortless and all we could do is hang there and adore him. Awesomeness!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 17m

Whalebone was next up and it was completely filled with smaller things: octopus, nudibranchs, 3 different kinds of moray eels, crabs, bright blue neon damsels, pink anthias, mantis shrimp, cleaner shrimp and lionfish. Plenty of big rankin cod, barracuda, trevally, surgeonfish and parrotfish roamed around, too. It was so busy it was like a carnival underwater today!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

After some lunch and time in the sun, we all dropped in for a big snorkel at North East Bommies. We had turles, rays, sharks, schools of convict surgeons, firefish and more glittery reef fish than we could count. A perfect end to the day!


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