Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 7 November 2010

We started our day at Cod Hole today and it really lived up to its name with tons of rankin and estuary cod all over the site. The dive started with a big shovelnosed ray lazily swimming past right at the bottom of the mooring! The fish life was excellent: lionfish, coral trout, six banded angelfish, all sorts of butterflyfishes, 100s of neon damsels & blue-green chromis, masses of red squirrelfish and lots of sea pike cruising around. Quite a few colourful nudibranchs and a few moray eels dotted the reef scape and a huge roughback stingray blew great plumes of sand up and over himself. Along the tops of the reef we had numerous green turtles. It was a gorgeous dive.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 12+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 18m

Keyhole was up next and the colours were outstanding. There were even more angelfish covering this site than we'd seen on dive one, no mean feat! Barramundi cod, batfish, blue spotted rays, sailfin catfish, small porcelain crabs, cleaner shrimp, more turtles and some white tip reef sharks gave us plenty to look at as we enjoyed the warm, blue water. We were having such a great dive that we had to hang out for a few extra minutes!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

The afternoon was perfect for a big snorkel at East Side Bommies. Turtles, sharks, rays, anemonefish, lionfish, emperor angelfish, octopus, nudibranchs, schools of trevally, coral trout, Christmas Tree Worms...this site is awesome every time we visit!