Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Friday 12 November 2010

Lighthouse Bay was a little choppy on the surface today but jam-packed with fish action underneath. We started at Blizzard Ridge and there were so many individual fish in the schools that it was almost hard to see your buddy as we swam through them! Five lined sea perch, threadfin pearl perch, trevally, fusiliers, nor'west snappers, rankin cod, sea pike, estuary cod, longfin bannerfish, lionfish, wobbegong sharks, batfish, flutemouths, pipefish - all shapes, colours and sizes today! We also had a green turtle swim with us for a few minutes and the whole time it looked like he was laughing at us before he effortlessly headed for the surface. Fun dive!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 810m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

Gulliver's had lots of fish but they weren't swimming too fast! It was great as everything just hung out and watched us and we were able to get very close to all manner of fish. A couple of very large green tusk fish were lolling on the sand while cleaner wrasse picked them clean. The resident school of five lined sea perch seems to have grown - it stretched from the sand almost all the way to the surface today. There was lots of cleaner action and tons of little shrimp were out and about trying to bring in customers. The tiger cardinalfish are carrying eggs in their mouths again, which is always cool to see. More green turtles and white tip reef sharks here - the sharks were super lazy, barely moving a meter before settling again. Another super dive for really getting close to critters!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m