Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 10 November 2010

It was a little windy first thing this morning but as we headed out the wind calmed and we ended up with a lovely day! Whalebone started us off with masses of baitfish around the reef and in the swim-thrus. A 3m black stingray was camped out on the bottom of one of the swim-thrus, his wingtips almost touching the walls on either side. Potato cod were hanging near the exits, just keeping an eye on things. Mating octopus, four kinds of angelfishes, cute morays, colourful nudibranchs - including a mating pair of neon marked Nembrotha purpureolineatas - and tons of reef fish really put on a show. We also had a grey reef shark cruise by a few times!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m

We headed around to the east side of the Muiron Islands to snorkel at Turtle Bay - and it really lived up to it's name with over 20 turtles all in a tiny area, all trying to find a special friend to mate with! It was awesome!

Keyhole was action packed with cobia, trevally, barracuda, turtles, schooling surgeonfish, roughback stingrays, white tip reef sharks and all colours of parrotfish zipping this way and that. We have a new juvenile reindeer wrasse pretending to be a bit of drunken weed weaving all over a little patch near a rocky outcrop - he's mesmerizing to watch! Big batfish were getting cleaned near the bottom and smaller batfish followed us all the way up the mooring line at the end of our dive.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 12m